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Real-time Indication of Faecal pigments in Freshwater (RIFF)

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"RIFF" is a successful Marie Skoldowska-Curie postdoctoral grant funded by the European Union in Horizon Europe 2023 call. This webpage is based on the updates of research activity on my MSCA project proposal carried out at BAM Germany. This page will include research output, public awareness program, collaborative research contributions and other dissemination activities. 

Research problem

 

Faecal contamination in fresh water is a global problem.  In 2022 W.H.O estimated that 2 billion people use drinking water source that contaminated with faeces. Microbial contamination of drinking-water as a result of contamination with faeces poses the greatest risk to drinking-water safety.  According to UNICEF, most of these faecal detection methods are expensive, time-consuming (18–24 h time to result). Thus, there is an urgent need to develop rapid and sensitive technology for faecal contaminants detection in fresh water. The project "RIFF" will contribute significantly to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular to SDG 6 (access to clean water and sanitation).

Visible Research Output
 

(Follow the research output or updates on RIFF on EU portal CORDIS)

Patent
1. Prakash, S., Rurack. K. and Bell. J. “Method and test strip for the on-site detection of a faecal pigment in a water sample and method for manufacturing the test strip”, PCT Application ID: PCT/EP2024/075029.
Conferences/Seminar
​1. Poster Presentation, Prakash, S., Bell. J and K. Rurack, Silane Functionalized Paper Test. Strips for Rapid and Sensitive. Faecal Pigments Detection towards On-site Water Quality Testing at 18th Conference on Methods and Application in Fluoresence (MAF 2024), Valensia, Spain, in 2024.
2. Invited Oral presentation, Prakash, S. Faecal pigments Detection for water quality testing at School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom, in 2024.
3. Oral presentation, Prakash, S. Rapid and Sensitive Faecal Pigments Detection for On-site Water Quality Testing, Adlershofer Kolloquium Analytik,  BAM, Berlin, Germany in 2024.
4. Lecture talk, Prakash, S. Fluorescence Spectroscopy as an Analytical Tool for Rapid and Sensitive Faecal Pigments Detection: From Fundamentals to Onsite Applications, ANAKON 2025, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany in 2025.

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