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Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic
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posted on 2020-11-17, 00:00 authored by Aaron Packman, Alex Furman, Amit Gross, Anne Bogler Bogler, Ariel Kushmaro, Avner Ronen, Bar-Or, Itay, Bar-Zeev, Edo, Christophe Dagot, Colin Hill, Eberhard Morgenroth, Enrico Bertuzzo, George Wells, Hadas Raanan Kiperwas, Harald Horn, Ido Negev, Ines Zucker, Jose Luis Balcazar, Kyle Bibby, Menachem Elimelech, Moran-Gilad, Jacob, Noam Weisbrod, Oded Nir, Oded Sued, Osnat Gillor, Pedro J. Alvarez, Sandra Crameri, Shai Arnon, Sharon Walker, Sima Yaron, Thanh H. Nguyen, Dalit Vaizel-Ohayon, Yakir Berchenko, Yunxia Hu, Zeev RonenThe COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted public health and the worldwide economy. Converging evidence from the current pandemic, previous outbreaks and controlled experiments indicates that SARS-CoVs are present in wastewater for several days, leading to potential health risks via waterborne and aerosolized wastewater pathways. Conventional wastewater treatment provides only partial removal of SARS-CoVs, thus safe disposal or reuse will depend on the efficacy of final disinfection. This underscores the need for a risk assessment and management framework tailored to SARS-CoV-2 transmission via wastewater, including new tools for environmental surveillance, ensuring adequate disinfection as a component of overall COVID-19 pandemic containment. Converging evidence indicates that SARS-CoVs are present in wastewater for several days with potential health risks. This Review analyses knowledge about such risks as well as the potential spread of SARS-CoVs in waterborne, waterborne-aerosolized and waterborne-foodborne pathways during a pandemic.
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