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In Senegal, no routine community-level monitoring is performed, and most available data concern other enteric viruses, leaving a gap in understanding norovirus circulation. To assess the potential of wastewater surveillance as an early warning system, we analyzed the spatiotemporal circulation in Senegal of noroviruses using clinical and environmental data collected between 2020 and 2023, combining statistical and machine learning models, and comparing effective reproduction number R(t) estimates between genotypes and surveillance systems. Our data show that norovirus GII was the dominant genotype during the study period. In addition, a strong spatial heterogeneity in viral load was identified between wastewater collection sites, with high titers observed in several wastewater collection sites. Interestingly, peaks of viral load in environmental setting frequently preceded increases in reported clinical cases. Modeling data indicated more persistent circulation of norovirus GII than GI. Our findings also highlighted the influence of temporal, demographic, and clinical factors for viral loads in wastewater. Comparison of the effective reproduction number R(t) confirmed the descriptive data and highlighted a more persistent circulation for norovirus GII and a detection of R(t)\u2019s increases in wastewater data prior to variation in clinical data, underscoring the usefulness of wastewater environmental surveillance as an early warning tool system for norovirus surveillance. 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