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

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

doi:10.1038/s41893-020-00605-2

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“…Cluster 3 describes evidence-based methodologies to detect the presence of COVID-19 in water, air, and wastewater samples. In relation to wastewater, for example, different evidences from controlled experiments, previous outbreaks, and the current pandemic indicate that SARS-CoVs are present in wastewater for several days (Ahmed et al 2020;Bogler et al 2020). This could lead to health risks via waterborne (Bogler et al 2020).…”

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“…In relation to wastewater, for example, different evidences from controlled experiments, previous outbreaks, and the current pandemic indicate that SARS-CoVs are present in wastewater for several days (Ahmed et al 2020;Bogler et al 2020). This could lead to health risks via waterborne (Bogler et al 2020). Accordingly, numerous research works proposed the use of wastewater analyses as effective monitoring tools for viral pandemics and suggested the upgrading of existing wastewater systems to prevent viral diseases (Venugopal et al 2020).…”

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Coronavirus disease-19 in environmental fields: a bibliometric and visualization mapping analysis

Zyoud

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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A coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) caused by a novel coronavirus has appeared in China by the end of 2019 and later recognized as a global pandemic. This pandemic has evolved as a global public health menace. It has affected every aspect of human life. In line with these concerns, governments and the scientific community react promptly to the outbreak of this pandemic. These efforts are devoted to develop vaccine and curative medicines. Further efforts are dedicated to assessing the impacts of the pandemic in relation to socioeconomic, psychological, and environmental dimensions. In this regard, it is important to follow up developments and research activities on this global issue. The present work intended to tracking the current hotspots and research trends on COVID-19 in environmental fields. Bibliometric analysis and visualization mapping were utilized with the objective of revealing and evaluating the developments in knowledge on COVID-2019 and its impacts based on a collection of environmental sources. A sum of 729 documents were collected from Scopus database limiting to environmental sources only. Of all these publications, 563 (77.2%) were articles, 56 (7.7%) were reviews, and 110 (15.0%) were others. China has the highest share of publications (163; 22.4%). It is followed by the USA (139; 19.15), and Italy (110; 15.1%). Most publications on COVID-19 were in prestigious journals. The most productive institution at global level was Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (24 documents; 3.3%). The most prevalent topics are in relation to impacts of the pandemic on air quality, mental health, psychological, and economic aspects. The development of these topics is based on cross-sectional studies, evidence-based tools, remote sensing, satellite mapping, geographic information systems, market analysis and sampling. The progress of environmental research on COVID-19 will guide the development of global environmental strategies to control future global environmental risks.

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Coronavirus disease-19 in environmental fields: a bibliometric and visualization mapping analysis

Zyoud

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Conventional wastewater treatment plants can partially remove viruses like SARS-CoVs, but the safe disposal or reuse of effluent will highly depend on the final disinfection efficacy. [5][6][7][8] Thus, virus disinfection in wastewater might inhibit the indirect infection pathways during outbreaks like SARS-CoVs. 5 Membrane filtration has the potential to provide a barrier to virus passage; however, electrically conductive surfaces on water filters including graphene can lead to electrochemical surface effects that have been shown to inactivate bacteria and might also cause virus inactivation or removal with no toxic byproducts formation.…”

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“…[5][6][7][8] Thus, virus disinfection in wastewater might inhibit the indirect infection pathways during outbreaks like SARS-CoVs. 5 Membrane filtration has the potential to provide a barrier to virus passage; however, electrically conductive surfaces on water filters including graphene can lead to electrochemical surface effects that have been shown to inactivate bacteria and might also cause virus inactivation or removal with no toxic byproducts formation. 9 Graphene consists of a single layer of sp 2 -hybridized carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice fashion.…”

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Virus Inactivation in Water Using Laser-Induced Graphene Filters

Barbhuiya

Singh²,

Makovitzki³

et al. 2020

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Graphene in the form of laser-induced graphene (LIG) has antimicrobial and antifouling surface effects due to its electrochemical properties and texture, and LIG-based water filters were used for the inactivation of bacteria. However, the antiviral activity of LIGbased filters has not been explored. Here we showed that LIG filters also have antiviral effects under application of electrical potential using the model prototypic poxvirus virus Vaccinia lister. This antiviral activity of the LIG filters was compared with its antibacterial activity, which showed that higher voltages are required for virus inactivation compared to bacteria. The generation of reactive oxygen species, along with surface electrical effects, play a role in the mechanism for the virus inactivation.

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“…It has been a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, which has caused confirmed infection of 59,759,494 and death of 1,409,252 (Coronavirus Disease Situation Reports, World Health Organization, accessed 28 Oct. 2020, https://go.nature.com/3aahjbg). In recent studies, the RNA of SARS-CoV-2 has been detected in the stool of symptomatic, asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic and even post-symptomatic infected individuals [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11].…”

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Technical framework for wastewater-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 based on relative quantification via qPCR

Wang

Lin

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The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has greatly affected people’s normal production, living, social and economic activities. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is expected to become a powerful tool to monitor the dissemination of SARS-CoV-2 at the community level, which has attracted the attention of scholars all over the world. However, there is not yet a standard protocol to guide its implementation. In this paper, we attempt to propose a technical framework of relative quantification for determining the virus abundance in wastewater and estimating the infection rate in corresponding communities, which is expected to achieve horizontal and vertical comparability in virtue of human-specific biomarkers as internal references. A comprehensive theoretical framework for relative quantification of viruses by qPCR is provided and discussed in detail. Critical factors affecting the virus detectability in wastewater and the estimation of infection rate include virus concentration methods, lag-period, per capita virus shedding amount, sewage generation rate, temperature-related decay kinetics of virus/biomarkers in wastewater, and hydraulic retention time (HRT), etc. Theoretical simulation shows that the main factors affecting the detectability of virus in sewage are per capita virus shedding amount and sewage generation rate. While the decay of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage is a relatively slow process, which has limited impact on its detection. Under the ideal condition of high per capita virus shedding amount and low sewage generation rate, WBE can give early warning for single infected person among 400,000 people.

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

Cited by 222 publications

References 116 publications

Coronavirus disease-19 in environmental fields: a bibliometric and visualization mapping analysis

Coronavirus disease-19 in environmental fields: a bibliometric and visualization mapping analysis

Virus Inactivation in Water Using Laser-Induced Graphene Filters

Technical framework for wastewater-based epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 based on relative quantification via qPCR

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