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Role of wastewater treatment in COVID-19 control
- Source :
- Water Quality Research Journal, Vol 56, Iss 2, Pp 68-82 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- IWA Publishing, 2021.
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Abstract
- The International Water Association (IWA) initiated a Task Force in April 2020 to serve as a leadership team within IWA whose role is to keep abreast and communicate the emerging science, technology, and applications for understanding the impact and the ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and specifically designed for water professionals and industries. Expertise was nominated across the world with the purpose of collectively providing the water sector with knowledge products for the guidance on the control of COVID-19 and other viruses. This review paper developed by a working group of the IWA Task Force focuses on the control of COVID-19. The purpose of this review paper is to provide an understanding of existing knowledge with regards to COVID-19 and provide the necessary guidance of risk mitigation based on currently available knowledge of viruses in wastewater. This review paper considered various scenarios for both the developed world and the developing world and provided recommendations for managing risk. The review paper serves to pool the knowledge with regards to the pandemic and in relation to other viruses. The IWA Task Team envisage that this review paper provides the necessary guidance to the global response to the ongoing pandemic. HIGHLIGHTS Review of existing research of the virus, SARS-CoV-2, that causes COVID-19 and other viruses in relation to wastewater process control and risk mitigation.; Available techniques for wastewater process engineers to reduce health risks associated with COVID-19 within wastewater processes.; Risk mitigation for developing countries that are serviced by small wastewater treatment works.
- Subjects :
- Knowledge management
Relation (database)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
Control (management)
Developing country
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Task (project management)
03 medical and health sciences
sars-cov-2
0302 clinical medicine
sludge
International waters
covid-19
Pandemic
030212 general & internal medicine
business
wastewater
Risk management
TD1-1066
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Water Science and Technology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 27098052 and 27098044
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Water Quality Research Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f74508ef8ce3f9ae7cd927af7eddc418