When the fourth water and digital revolution encountered COVID-19
| Autor: | Diego Rosso, Manel Garrido-Baserba, Manuel Cermerón-Romero, Lluís Corominas, Sunny C. Jiang, Nikos Melitas, Antoni Perello-Moragues, Manel Poch, Hèctor Monclús |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Sanitation Pneumonia Viral Water supply 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Article Betacoronavirus Development economics Pandemic Environmental Chemistry Humans Product (category theory) Viral Waste Management and Disposal Pandemics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Data Infrastructure Conceptualization business.industry SARS-CoV-2 Water COVID-19 Pneumonia Pollution Coronavirus Shock (economics) Digitalisation Clean Water and Sanitation Business Coronavirus Infections Digital Revolution Nexus (standard) Environmental Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Science of The Total Environment The Science of the Total Environment |
| Popis: | The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is, undeniably, a substantial shock to our civilization which has revealed the value of public services that relate to public health. Ensuring a safe and reliable water supply and maintaining water sanitation has become ever more critical during the pandemic. For this reason, researchers and practitioners have promptly investigated the impact associated with the spread of SARS-CoV-2 on water treatment processes, focusing specifically on water disinfection. However, the COVID-19 pandemic impacts multiple aspects of the urban water sector besides those related to the engineering processes, including sanitary, economic, and social consequences which can have significant effects in the near future. Furthermore, this outbreak appears at a time when the water sector was already experiencing a fourth revolution, transitioning toward the digitalisation of the sector, which redefines the Water-Human-Data Nexus. In this contribution, a product of collaboration between academics and practitioners from water utilities, we delve into the multiple impacts that the pandemic is currently causing and their possible consequences in the future. We show how the digitalisation of the water sector can provide useful approaches and tools to help address the impact of the pandemic. We expect this discussion to contribute not only to current challenges, but also to the conceptualization of new projects and the broader task of ameliorating climate change. Graphical abstract Unlabelled Image Highlights • The impacts of pandemic on the urban water cycle were assessed. • Data mining from sewers can be enabled by digitalisation of the water industry. • Effectiveness of public health measures can be monitored in the aggregate in sewers. |
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