When the fourth water and digital revolution encountered COVID-19
When the fourth water and digital revolution encountered COVID-19
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DOI：
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140980
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发表时间：
2020-11-20
影响因子：
9.8
通讯作者：
Rosso, Diego
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作者：
Poch, Manel;Garrido-Baserba, Manel;Rosso, Diego
不可否认，正在进行的COVID-19大流行对我们的文明造成了重大冲击，它揭示了与公共卫生有关的公共服务的价值。在大流行期间，确保安全可靠的供水和维持水卫生变得越来越重要。因此，研究人员和从业人员迅速调查了SARS-CoV-2传播对水处理过程的影响，特别是对水消毒的影响。然而，除了与工程流程相关的方面外，2019冠状病毒病大流行还影响了城市供水部门的多个方面，包括在不久的将来可能产生重大影响的卫生、经济和社会后果。此外，此次疫情爆发正值水务部门已经经历第四次革命，向该部门的数字化过渡，重新定义了水-人-数据关系。在这篇论文中，我们深入探讨了这一流行病目前造成的多重影响及其未来可能产生的后果，这是学术界与水务公司从业人员合作的成果。我们展示了水务部门的数字化如何提供有用的方法和工具，帮助应对疫情的影响。我们期望这次讨论不仅有助于应对当前的挑战，而且有助于构想新的项目和更广泛的缓解气候变化的任务。(C) 2020 Elsevier B.V.版权所有
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is, undeniably, a substantial shock to our civilization which has revealed the value of public services that relate to public health. Ensuring a safe and reliable water supply and maintaining water sanitation has become ever more critical during the pandemic. For this reason, researchers and practitioners have promptly investigated the impact associated with the spread of SARS-CoV-2 on water treatment processes, focusing specifically on water disinfection. However, the COVID-19 pandemic impacts multiple aspects of the urban water sector besides those related to the engineering processes, including sanitary, economic, and social consequences which can have significant effects in the near future. Furthermore, this outbreak appears at a time when the water sector was already experiencing a fourth revolution, transitioning toward the digitalisation of the sector, which redefines the Water-Human-Data Nexus. In this contribution, a product of collaboration between academics and practitioners from water utilities, we delve into the multiple impacts that the pandemic is currently causing and their possible consequences in the future. We show how the digitalisation of the water sector can provide useful approaches and tools to help address the impact of the pandemic. We expect this discussion to contribute not only to current challenges, but also to the conceptualization of new projects and the broader task of ameliorating dimate change. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.