水系感染症は途上国の問題として捉えられがちですが、先進国においても十分に安全な水を供給することは容易でない状況です。水中の病原微生物は、水道及び下水道において、今なお重要な課題という認識のもと、都市衛生工学研究室では、水中のウイルスを中心に、水道、水環境、下水などを俯瞰して病原微生物の生活環を把握し、環境工学を通じて都市の微生物学的安全性を確立することを目指しています。
Safe water supply and sanitation is adopted as Sustainable Development Goal 6, which play an important role in prevention of waterborne diseases. Water safety is obviously important in developing countries, but in developed countries, where the water supply system is already installed, it is also a challenging issue.
To address the water safety associated with the health-related microorganism in the urban water system, i.e. water supply, sewerage, and water environment, the research focus of Environmental Public Health Engineering Laboratory are:
i) to elucidate the fate of the health-related microorganisms, i.e. pathogenic virus, in urban water system, and
ii) to achieve the microbiological safety of urban water systems by means of environmental engineering.
