COVID-19
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Using qPCR Wastewater Testing To Pinpoint Potential COVID-19 Outbreaks
3/8/2021
Health officials who are aware of how quickly the pandemic landscape can change in terms of local infection rates, virus mutations, and evolving public health protocols are turning to timely wastewater testing to detect the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as an indicator of COVID-19 spread. Here is how one technology is delivering quicker, easier, and more reliable onsite detection capabilities in as little as 2 hours.
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Pride And Joy: Water Leadership Defined
3/8/2021
Despite overseeing our most precious resource, water professionals often go unnoticed, and hence unappreciated. To that end, it’s my pleasure to highlight the efforts, accomplishments, and insights of industry leaders such as Joy Eldredge, chair of the California-Nevada Section of the American Water Works Association.
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Public Water Sector Applauds Senate Leadership For Addressing Urgent Water Needs In American Rescue Plan Act
3/8/2021
Over the weekend, the United States Senate passed the American Rescue Plan Act, legislation to deliver additional COVID-19 relief that contains $500M in assistance for clean and drinking water customers and support for critical water and sewer investments.
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Planning Better Wastewater Sampling For Better COVID-19 Insight
3/6/2021
Even with the most precise analytical techniques and instruments, representative sampling is still key to reliable wastewater monitoring and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) process control. For those facing specific challenges in monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, here are guidelines that can make the difference between simply documenting a community’s exposure and playing a key role in protecting its future.
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Wastewater Testing Charts Path Through COVID-19 Minefield
3/5/2021
Early efforts at wastewater testing for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 revolved around university researchers who had knowledge of quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) technology and the laboratory equipment to carry it out. One university has capitalized on a total wastewater monitoring solution to protect its community and, in the process, has created a blueprint for other communities to do the same.
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Battelle Research Pinpoints Local Viral Outbreaks Through Sewage Examination
3/3/2021
Battelle research shows that analyzing wastewater for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19 can pinpoint specific neighborhoods that are hotspots for viral outbreaks.
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Standard Water Treatment Eliminates 'Enveloped' Viruses
2/24/2021
Among the many avenues that viruses, such as the novel coronavirus, can use to infect humans, drinking water may pose only a tiny risk.
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GoAigua, The European Company With The World’s Largest Operation To Detect SARS-CoV-2 In Wastewater, Is Helping Communities In New England Stop The Spread
2/22/2021
Community testing for COVID-19 has become a hot topic in the last months, especially when looking at wastewater. Since March 2020, some of Europe’s largest cities have been implementing widespread surveillance systems that are efficiently testing entire cities every day, at a neighborhood and even building level, by detecting traces of the virus RNA in wastewater. GoAigua, the leading European player in wastewater-based epidemiology, has been helping over 20 cities in Europe and performed over 20,000 tests this year to provide communities with a reliable and anticipated source of community infection assessment.
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Should Drinking Water And Wastewater Utility Employees Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Priority?
2/18/2021
As limited doses of approved COVID-19 vaccines are distributed around the country, vulnerable populations and frontline workers have been given priority to receive them. And in certain pockets of the U.S., drinking water and wastewater employees have made the case that they should be included in the priority grouping.
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IWA Announces Major Virtual Congress For 2021
2/17/2021
IWA is delighted to announce that it will be hosting the Digital World Water Congress, which will take place virtually from 24 May - 4 June 2021.