COVID-19 and surface water quality: Improved lake water quality during the lockdown

Yunus, Ali P.; Masago, Yoshifumi; Hijioka, Yasuaki

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139012

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“…These authors also identified the storage during the outset of the third phase of the lockdown almost doubled that during the same period the previous year. Along a same line, Yunus et al (2020) identified changes in surface water quality, notably a 15.9% decrease of suspended particulate matter (SPM) during the lockdown in the Vembanad, India's largest freshwater lake. Selvam et al (2020) further studied the lockdown effects on subsurface water quality in southern India's coastal industrial city of Tuticorin and singled out a reduction in arsenic, selenium, lead and iron due to a marked decrease in wastewater discharges from metal-based industries Fig.…”

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Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Casado‐Aranda

Sánchez‐Fernández

Viedma-del-Jesús

2021

Environmental Research

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The fight against COVID-19 since January 2020 has become the top priority of more than 200 countries. In order to offer solutions to eradicate this global pandemic, the scientific community has published hundreds of articles covering a wide range of areas of knowledge. With the aim of synthesizing these publications, academics are resorting to bibliometric analyses from the perspectives of the disciplines such as biology, medicine, socioeconomics and tourism. Yet no bibliometric analysis has explored the diffuse and little-known growth of COVID-19 scientific publications in the field of environmental studies. The current study is the first of this type to fill this research gap. It has resorted to SciMAT software to evaluate the main topics, authors and journals of publications on the subject of COVID-19 combined with environmental studies spanning the period between 1 December 2019 and 6 September 2020. The search yielded a collection of 440 articles published in scientific journals indexed on by Web of Science and Scopus databases. These publications can be broken down into six main themes: (i) a sharp reduction in air pollution and an improvement of the level of water pollution; (ii) the relationship of wind speed (positive), ultraviolet radiation (positive) and humidity (negative) with the rate of infections; (iii) the effect of the pandemic on the food supply chain and waste habits; (iv) wastewater monitoring offers a great potential as an early warning sign of COVID-19 transmission; (v) artificial intelligence and smart devices can be of great use in monitoring citizen mobilization; and (vi) the lessons gleaned from the pandemic that help define actions to mitigate climate change. The results of the current study therefore offer an agenda for future research and constitute a starting point for academics in the field of environmental studies to evaluate the effects of COVID-19.

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Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Casado‐Aranda

Sánchez‐Fernández

Viedma-del-Jesús

2021

Environmental Research

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“…Water pollution is a common phenomenon of a developing country like India, and Bangladesh, where domestic and industrial wastes are dumped into rivers without treatment (Islam and Azam, 2015;Islam and Huda, 2016;Bodrud-Doza et al, 2020;Yunus et al, 2020). During the lockdown period, the major industrial sources of pollution have shrunk or completely stopped, which helped to reduce the pollution load (Yunus et al, 2020). For instance, the river Ganga and Yamuna have reached a significant level of purity due to the absence of industrial pollution on the days of lockdown in India.…”

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Environmental effects of COVID-19 pandemic and potential strategies of sustainability

Rume

Islam

2020

Heliyon

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The global outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is affecting every part of human lives, including the physical world. The measures taken to control the spread of the virus and the slowdown of economic activities have significant effects on the environment. Therefore, this study intends to explore the positive and negative environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, by reviewing the available scientific literatures. This study indicates that, the pandemic situation significantly improves air quality in different cities across the world, reduces GHGs emission, lessens water pollution and noise, and reduces the pressure on the tourist destinations, which may assist with the restoration of the ecological system. In addition, there are also some negative consequences of COVID-19, such as increase of medical waste, haphazard use and disposal of disinfectants, mask, and gloves; and burden of untreated wastes continuously endangering the environment. It seems that, economic activities will return soon after the pandemic, and the situation might change. Hence, this study also outlines possible ways to achieve long-term environmental benefits. It is expected that the proper implementation of the proposed strategies might be helpful for the global environmental sustainability.

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“…The partial shutdown of world economies has resulted in widespread improvements in air quality and in the ecological status of water bodies all over the world (Yunus et al, 2020). Although the water quality of some surface water bodies may have experienced improvements, most of the drinking water is withdrawn from sources such as reservoirs or aquifers which have been far less impacted by behavioural changes associated with the pandemic.…”

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When the fourth water and digital revolution encountered COVID-19

Poch

Garrido-Baserba

Corominas

et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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COVID-19 and surface water quality: Improved lake water quality during the lockdown

Cited by 422 publications

References 32 publications

Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Analysis of the scientific production of the effect of COVID-19 on the environment: A bibliometric study

Environmental effects of COVID-19 pandemic and potential strategies of sustainability

When the fourth water and digital revolution encountered COVID-19

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