New technology is urgently needed as the water crisis in urban areas is actually a sanitation-sewerage crisis
		
	 
	
		
		Only a collective response will ensure water security and the per person use to a below a 170-litre future
		
	 
	
		
		Only a collective response will avert the crisis that is, in part, caused by the loss of non-revenue water
		
	 
	
		
		Wastewater Based Epidemiology Surveillance programme surveillance and needs to be escalated in the fight against this pandemic