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WATCH: An Integrated Platform for Wastewater Surveillance towards One Health Intelligence in Qatar
Multimodal platform combining metagenomics and contaminant measurement for near-real-time detection of emerging pathogens, zoonotic threats, microbial ecology, and AMR across Qatar's water cycle.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- National wastewater, sewage, treated effluent, receiving water, and soil environments
- Project type
- One Health metagenomic surveillance platform
- Research domain
- pathogen metagenomics, antimicrobial resistance, and environmental health
- Years
- 2025–2027
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- HBKU's project registry lists WATCH as active from 1 January 2025 through 31 December 2027 under award QEE314-WATWQ-0125-WBS-014.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- Three-year applied-research project; public sampling totals not yet reported.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Hamad Bin Khalifa University Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
- Partner organizations
- Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar · HBKU Genomics Core Labs
- Organism / population
- Wastewater microbial communities, emerging pathogens, zoonotic threats, and antimicrobial-resistance genes
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- shotgun metagenomics
- targeted qPCR
- AMR genes
- microbial community profiles
- wastewater chemistry
- PFAS
- microplastics
- pharmaceuticals
Data access
Project-specific; no public sequence release yet identified.
Identifiers
- Other
QEE314-WATWQ-0125-WBS-014 - Other
QEERI-CORE-000014
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Named, funded national metagenomic surveillance platform with explicit dates and One Health scope.
Editorial note
Successor in capability to the COVID-era wastewater project but broader in pathogens, AMR, contaminants, and environmental compartments.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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