TY - JOUR
T1 - Post COVID-19 Water and Waste Water Management to Protect Public Health and Geoenvironment
AU - Cornell, Ken
AU - Farid, Arvin
AU - Paleologos, Evan K.
AU - O'Kelly, Brendan C.
AU - Tang, Chao Sheng
AU - Rodríguez-Chueca, Jorge
AU - Abuel-Naga, Hossam
AU - Koda, Eugeniusz
AU - Vaverková, Magdalena Daria
AU - Kostarelos, Konstantinos
AU - Goli, Venkata Siva Naga Sai
AU - Guerra-Rodríguez, Sonia
AU - Leong, Eng Choon
AU - Jayanthi, Prathyusha
AU - Shashank, Bettadapura S.
AU - Sharma, Susmita
AU - Shreedhar, Sowmya
AU - Mohammad, Arif
AU - Jha, Bhagwanjee
AU - Kuntikana, Ganaraj
AU - Bo, Myint Win
AU - Mohamed, Abdel Mohsen O.
AU - Singh, Devendra N.
N1 - Paleologos, Evan K.; O'Kelly, Brendan C.; Tang, Chao-Sheng; Cornell, Ken; Rodríguez-Chueca, Jorge; Abuel-Naga, Hossam; Koda, Eugeniusz; . . . and Singh, Devandra N. (2021). "Post COVID-19 Water and Waste Water Management to Protect Public Health and Geoenvironment". Environmental Geotechnics, 8(3), 193-207. https://doi.org/10.1680/jenge.20.00067
PY - 2021/5/1
Y1 - 2021/5/1
N2 - The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has posed severe threats to humans and the geoenvironment. The findings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars-CoV-2) traces in waste water and the practice of disinfecting outdoor spaces in several cities in the world, which can result into the entry of disinfectants and their by-products into storm drainage systems and their subsequent discharge into rivers and coastal waters, raise the issue of environmental, ecological and public health effects. The aims of the current paper are to investigate the potential of water and waste water to operate as transmission routes for Sars-CoV-2 and the risks of this to public health and the geoenvironment. Additionally, several developing countries are characterised by low water-related disaster resilience and low household water security, with measures for protection of water resources and technologies for clean water and sanitation being substandard or not in place. To mitigate the impact of the pandemic in such cases, practical recommendations are provided herein. The paper calls for the enhancement of research into the migration mechanisms of viruses in various media, as well as in the formation of trihalomethanes and other disinfectant by-products in the geoenvironment, in order to develop robust solutions to combat the effects of the current and future pandemics.
AB - The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has posed severe threats to humans and the geoenvironment. The findings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars-CoV-2) traces in waste water and the practice of disinfecting outdoor spaces in several cities in the world, which can result into the entry of disinfectants and their by-products into storm drainage systems and their subsequent discharge into rivers and coastal waters, raise the issue of environmental, ecological and public health effects. The aims of the current paper are to investigate the potential of water and waste water to operate as transmission routes for Sars-CoV-2 and the risks of this to public health and the geoenvironment. Additionally, several developing countries are characterised by low water-related disaster resilience and low household water security, with measures for protection of water resources and technologies for clean water and sanitation being substandard or not in place. To mitigate the impact of the pandemic in such cases, practical recommendations are provided herein. The paper calls for the enhancement of research into the migration mechanisms of viruses in various media, as well as in the formation of trihalomethanes and other disinfectant by-products in the geoenvironment, in order to develop robust solutions to combat the effects of the current and future pandemics.
KW - COVID-19
KW - drinking water
KW - wastewater management
KW - transmission routes
KW - geoenvironmental degradation
KW - public health
KW - environmental engineering
KW - geoenvironment
KW - waste management & disposal
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/chem_facpubs/141
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106939287&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1680/jenge.20.00067
DO - 10.1680/jenge.20.00067
M3 - Article
SN - 2051-803X
VL - 8
SP - 193
EP - 207
JO - Environmental Geotechnics
JF - Environmental Geotechnics
IS - 3
ER -
