{"id":111928,"date":"2020-05-11T18:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T22:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg.savethewater.org\/?p=111928"},"modified":"2021-05-25T21:08:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T01:08:05","slug":"how-covid-19-impacts-water-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/how-covid-19-impacts-water-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 Impacts Water Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Jamera Bradley, Staff Writer and Researcher for Save The Water\u2122| May 11, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How does chlorination work?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chlorine is added to water to disinfect it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When added in small doses (up to 4 milligrams per liter), it kills germs in water to make it safe to drink.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, chlorine ingested in high doses can be dangerous.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can also be dangerous if ingested by dialysis patients.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Coronavirus vs. chlorine?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most chlorinated water treatments can kill or remove germs and viruses from drinking\/ usable water; this method combined with ultraviolet irradiation has been an effective water treatment method. Thus far, the most recent coronavirus (COVID-19) has not been detected in the water systems; however, as the situation progresses, there may be a need for further research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>So, why did France increase chlorine in the water treatment?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Extra precaution against COVID-19, despite the World Health Organization (WHO) advising against it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Businesses have closed, leaving water stagnant in pipes; the increase in chlorine could kill the microbes present in the stagnant water.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>References<\/b><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrequently Asked Questions: What is chlorination?\u201d Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/healthywater\/drinking\/public\/chlorine-disinfection.html<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">World Health Organization. March 19, 2020. \u201cWater, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for the COVID-19 virus.\u201d Unicef. https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/331499\/WHO-2019-nCoV-IPC_WASH-2020.2-eng.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olivia Tempest. April 15, 2020. \u201cTap water in France under strict surveillance.\u201d Smart Water Magazine. https:\/\/smartwatermagazine.com\/news\/smart-water-magazine\/tap-water-france-under-strict-surveillance<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jamera Bradley, Staff Writer and Researcher for Save The Water\u2122| May 11, 2020 How does chlorination&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12812,"featured_media":114067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,52],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2211,2431,2428,2269,2429,2435,2432,2438,2433,622,1441,720,2434,2436,2437,1993,792,733,1440,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114069,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111928\/revisions\/114069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111928"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=111928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}