{"id":111955,"date":"2020-05-14T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T00:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savethewater.org\/?p=111955"},"modified":"2021-09-18T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T16:24:32","slug":"covid-19-water-developing-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/covid-19-water-developing-context\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at the Developing Context: Water-Related Transmission of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
By En Qi Teo, Staff Writer and Researcher for Save The Water\u2122| May 15, 2020<\/p>\n
Recently, April Day, our Publishing Director, <\/span>wrote<\/span><\/a> about whether drinking water was safe to consume during the Covid-19 pandemic. It remains true that treated drinking water is safe to consume, and global research concurs on this. [1] For those living in developed countries, there is no need to stock up on bottled water as a substitute to drinking water. [2] However, access to safe drinking water is still a concern for developing countries.<\/span><\/p>\n Most water treatment regimes are designed to remove coronaviruses from the water that is being treated. [3] Therefore, developed countries with robust water treatment regimes have no cause for concern. However, developing countries without safe access to treated water for all, are at particular risk for the spread of coronavirus through water. [4] In many countries without effective water infrastructure, water collected at wells by villagers may contain the virus. Coronaviruses are thought to be infectious in water for several days. [3] It was found in 2017 that 29% of people around the world do not have access to fully treated, safe and potable water. [5] This problem could potentially increase the spread of Covid-19 in developing countries that already face struggles in coping with the effect of the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n We previously wrote about water treatment facilities in developing countries <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n You can donate to organizations that specialize in providing access to treated water to disadvantaged communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By En Qi Teo, Staff Writer and Researcher for Save The Water\u2122| May 15, 2020 Recently, April…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12812,"featured_media":114531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,52],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[2211,2494,2490,2340,2495,1001,632,1441,682,2493,2511,2497,2496,2498,742,792,2491,733,1440,1430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111955"}],"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=111955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114532,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111955\/revisions\/114532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111955"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethewater.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=111955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Transmission of Covid-19 through water<\/strong><\/h2>\n
What can you do to help?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
References<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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