OMAHA – Researchers have been collecting rainwater since April with the intention of developing a method to detect signs of the novel coronavirus. This may give public health officials a leg up on responding to the coronavirus if the research is successful.

Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, stated that “This might be able to help predict what’s coming and direct where to put testing centers or where to put (other) resources.”

Wastewater monitoring already is catching on in other countries and in parts of the United States. Researchers in the Netherlands, Australia, and now the United States have demonstrated that testing can pick up on the virus about a week before the first clinical case.

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