• Pop Quiz: Is Your Drinking Water System Ready for SARS-CoV-2

  • Dec 8 2024
  • Length: 11 mins
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Pop Quiz: Is Your Drinking Water System Ready for SARS-CoV-2

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  • There is always a baseline level of uncertainty when it comes to making critical decisions. But what do you do when there's a significant 'shock' to the system that causes this baseline uncertainty to spike? In 2020, when the genetic signal of SARS-CoV-2 was detected in wastewater, the field of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) was jumpstarted. But this also raised questions of whether this emerging pathogen posed any risks to public drinking water systems, particularly in the context of potable reuse.

    This episode takes a "deep dive" into the drinking water industry's response to SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, this episode describes an 'editorial perspective' written in response to questions of whether our potable reuse systems were sufficiently robust to handle this new pathogen. This editorial demonstrates that we can leverage prior knowledge, identify and conduct critical research to fill knowledge gaps, and continue to protect public health, even under extreme uncertainty.

    This is an AI-generated podcast created with NotebookLM based on a publication in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. The original article is available here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EW90031A

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