COVID-19
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Xylem Partners With UNICEF To Create A Brighter Future For 3.4 Million Children In India’s Most Vulnerable Communities
12/14/2021
Xylem Watermark, the corporate social responsibility program of global water technology company Xylem Inc., aims to reach over 3.4 million children by end of 2023 through its support of UNICEF, the world’s leading organization for children.
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Houston Health Department Testing City Wastewater For Omicron Variant
11/30/2021
The Houston Health Department is now testing the city’s wastewater for the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of the virus that causes COVID-19.
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EPA Researchers Inform Public Health Officials In Ohio On Variants Of COVID-19 Virus Through Wastewater Monitoring And Sequencing
11/2/2021
Early in the pandemic, researchers at EPA’s laboratory in Cincinnati began looking for evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in municipal wastewater. Wastewater can contain indicators of COVID-19 infection in a community and this data can help inform public health decisions. For example, wastewater monitoring can help health officials know which communities need more access to testing, or predict when infection waves might be present in a community, often before anyone shows symptoms of the disease.
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Idrica Nominated For The Prestigious Aquatech Innovation Award 2021
10/28/2021
The GoAigua SARS Analytics solution, marketed by the multinational Idrica, has been nominated in the Transport and Process & Control category of the prestigious Aquatech Innovation Award 2021.
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New Study Explicitly Links Protection Of Water Access With Lower COVID-19 Infection And Death Rates
10/27/2021
A new analysis finds US states that prevented utilities from turning off water service to households that were behind on their payments during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced significantly lower rates of infection and death from the pandemic while the moratoria were in effect.
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Detecting COVID-19 Early Via Wastewater Surveillance
10/25/2021
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is the analysis of wastewater to identify the presence of biologicals or chemicals for the purpose of monitoring public health. It can provide a snapshot of entire communities from one sample. Detecting viral diseases by way of wastewater monitoring is nothing new, it’s been known for decades that viral particles can be detected in human feces. WBE has previously been used to detect the presence of pharmaceutical or industrial waste, drugs, viruses, and potential emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In Israel, a wastewater surveillance program for monitoring polio outbreaks has been successfully running since 1989.
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WWEMA Window: COVID-19 Challenges And Opportunities In The Water And Wastewater Sector
10/13/2021
The continuing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented economic and operational impacts to our industry, not to mention a high degree of uncertainty that persists. Beyond significant economic and business challenges, the pandemic has had more serious impacts as we have seen many lives lost and profound changes to the daily lives of a sizeable portion of the human race. The effect on the water and wastewater industry is highly significant.
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More Microplastics Are Entering The Ocean From Disposable Masks, According To New Concordia Research
10/6/2021
The enormous surge of face-mask use since the beginning of the global lockdown in March 2020 has saved countless human lives, a crucial component to limiting the transmission of the novel coronavirus.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Wastewater Isolation Kit For SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance
10/5/2021
Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, public health laboratories and researchers have been developing surveillance methods using wastewater to control the spread of COVID-19.
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State Water Board Adopts Guidelines For Paying Off Pandemic-Related Water Bill Debt
9/23/2021
On Tuesday the State Water Resources Control Board adopted guidelines that will determine how the agency will administer the $1 billion financial relief program for community water systems’ unpaid water bill debt from residential and commercial customers who were unable to pay their bills due to COVID-related financial hardship.