Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA.
Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Desert Research Institute, 755 E. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA.
Sci Total Environ. 2021 Jun 20;774:145586. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145586. Epub 2021 Feb 5.
With global number of cases 106 million and death toll surpassing 2.3 million as of mid-February 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic is certainly one of the major threats that humankind have faced in modern history. As the scientific community navigates through the overwhelming avalanche of information on the multiple health impacts caused by the pandemic, new reports start to emerge on significant ancillary effects associated with the treatment of the virus. Besides the evident health impacts, other emerging impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic, such as water-related impacts, merits in-depth investigation. This includes strategies for the identification of these impacts and technologies to mitigate them, and to prevent further impacts not only in water ecosystems, but also in relation to human health. This paper has critically reviewed currently available knowledge on the most significant potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wastewater pathway into surface water, as well as technologies that may serve to counteract the major threats posed, key perspectives and challenges. Additionally, current knowledge gaps and potential directions for further research and development are identified. While the COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing and rapidly evolving situation, compiling current knowledge of potential links between wastewater and surface water pathways as related to environmental impacts and relevant associated technologies, as presented in this review, is a critical step to guide future research in this area.
截至 2021 年 2 月中旬，全球病例数达 1.06 亿，死亡人数超过 230 万，COVID-19 大流行无疑是人类在现代历史上面临的主要威胁之一。随着科学界在海量的信息中探索大流行对多种健康影响，新的报告开始出现与病毒治疗相关的重大辅助影响。除了明显的健康影响外，与 COVID-19 大流行相关的其他新出现的影响，如与水有关的影响，值得深入调查。这包括识别这些影响的策略和减轻它们的技术，以防止不仅在水生态系统中，而且在与人类健康有关的方面进一步受到影响。本文批判性地回顾了目前关于 COVID-19 大流行对进入地表水的废水途径的最重大潜在影响的现有知识，以及可能用于对抗主要威胁的技术，关键观点和挑战。此外，还确定了当前的知识空白和进一步研究和开发的潜在方向。虽然 COVID-19 大流行是一个持续且快速发展的情况，但在这个领域中，编制有关废水和地表水途径之间的潜在联系的现有知识，以及与环境影响和相关的相关技术相关的知识，如本综述所述，是指导该领域未来研究的关键步骤。
