On November 30th 2024, in a scientific session entitled “From Sewage to Strategy-Role of Wastewater Surveillance in Pathogen and AMR Surveillance” held during the 47th Annual Congress of the Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists Meeting: MICROCON-2024 in Pune, APSI team members presented an overview of environmental surveillance programs being conducted within the consortium. The talks highlighted the importance and role of environmental surveillance in serving as an early detecting system for predicting disease outbreaks.