Doorn N
Department of Technology, Policy and Management - Values, Technology and Innovation, Delft University of Technology PO Box 5015 2600 GA Delft The Netherlands
Environ Sci (Camb). 2022 Sep 5;8(11):2431-2438. doi: 10.1039/d2ew00127f. eCollection 2022 Oct 27.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has given wastewater research a huge impetus. While wastewater research has some promising applications, there are as yet no well-developed ethical guidelines on how and under what conditions to use wastewater research. The current perspective paper aims to explore the different ethical questions pertaining to wastewater research and surveillance and to provide some tentative guidelines on the desirability of different types of applications. This paper shows that wastewater research offers interesting possibilities, but that legal regulation and ethical guidelines are still lacking, while there are ethical risks involved. The perspective indicates that it is important to look beyond the regulation of data collection and to shift the focus to the question how the analysis and use of wastewater data can be supervised.
当前的新冠疫情极大地推动了废水研究。虽然废水研究有一些前景广阔的应用，但对于如何以及在何种条件下使用废水研究，目前尚无完善的伦理准则。本视角论文旨在探讨与废水研究及监测相关的不同伦理问题，并就不同类型应用的可取性提供一些初步指导方针。本文表明，废水研究提供了有趣的可能性，但仍缺乏法律法规和伦理准则，同时还存在伦理风险。该视角指出，重要的是超越对数据收集的监管，将重点转移到如何监督废水数据的分析和使用这一问题上。
