The analysis of municipal wastewaters for drugs and their metabolic products to estimate community consumption is a developing field, involving scientists working in different research areas, including analytical chemistry, physiology, biochemistry, sewage engineering, spatial epidemiology and statistics, and conventional drug epidemiology.
---title: Wastewater drug monitoring Europeauthor: Reinhold Kochdate: 2023-09-06image: ww.jpgabstract: The analysis of municipal wastewaters for drugs and their metabolic products to estimate community consumption is a developing field, involving scientists working in different research areas, including analytical chemistry, physiology, biochemistry, sewage engineering, spatial epidemiology and statistics, and conventional drug epidemiology.---# Wastewater drug monitoring EuropeSee [https://reikoch.shinyapps.io/wastewater/](https://reikoch.shinyapps.io/wastewater/) for an interactive application based on datafrom [https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/html/pods/waste-water-analysis_en#sourceData](https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/html/pods/waste-water-analysis_en#sourceData)code in [https://github.com/baseldatascience/wastewater](https://github.com/baseldatascience/wastewater).