Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

Anne Bogler; Aaron Packman; Alex Furman; Amit Gross; Ariel Kushmaro; Avner Ronen; Christophe Dagot; Colin Hill; Dalit Vaizel-Ohayon; Eberhard Morgenroth; Enrico Bertuzzo; George Wells; Hadas Raanan Kiperwas; Harald Horn; Ido Negev; Ines Zucker; Itay Bar-Or; Jacob Moran-Gilad; Jose Luis Balcazar; Kyle Bibby; Menachem Elimelech; Noam Weisbrod; Oded Nir; Oded Sued; Osnat Gillor; Pedro J. Alvarez; Sandra Crameri; Shai Arnon; Sharon Walker; Sima Yaron; Thanh H. Nguyen; Yakir Berchenko; Yunxia Hu; Zeev Ronen; Edo Bar-Zeev

doi:10.1038/s41893-020-00605-2

Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

Anne Bogler
, Aaron Packman
, Alex Furman
, Amit Gross
, Ariel Kushmaro
, Avner Ronen
, Christophe Dagot
, Colin Hill
, Dalit Vaizel-Ohayon
, Eberhard Morgenroth
, Enrico Bertuzzo
, George Wells
, Hadas Raanan Kiperwas
, Harald Horn
, Ido Negev
, Ines Zucker
, Itay Bar-Or
, Jacob Moran-Gilad
, Jose Luis Balcazar
, Kyle Bibby

Menachem Elimelech, Noam Weisbrod, Oded Nir, Oded Sued, Osnat Gillor, Pedro J. Alvarez, Sandra Crameri, Shai Arnon, Sharon Walker, Sima Yaron, Thanh H. Nguyen, Yakir Berchenko, Yunxia Hu, Zeev Ronen, Edo Bar-Zeev

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Abstract

The 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	981-990
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nature Sustainability
Volume	3
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00605-2
State	Published - 1 Dec 2020

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Global and Planetary Change
Food Science
Geography, Planning and Development
Ecology
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Urban Studies
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Bogler, A., Packman, A., Furman, A., Gross, A., Kushmaro, A., Ronen, A., Dagot, C., Hill, C., Vaizel-Ohayon, D., Morgenroth, E., Bertuzzo, E., Wells, G., Kiperwas, H. R., Horn, H., Negev, I., Zucker, I., Bar-Or, I., Moran-Gilad, J., Balcazar, J. L., ... Bar-Zeev, E. (2020). Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Sustainability, 3(12), 981-990. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-00605-2

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