Leveraging water-wastewater data interdependencies to understand infrastructure systems' behaviors during COVID-19 pandemic

A Bakchan, A Roy, KM Faust - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Social distancing policies (SDPs) implemented worldwide in response to COVID-19
pandemic have led to spatiotemporal variations in water demand and wastewater flow …

Impacts of COVID-19 social distancing policies on water demand: A population dynamics perspective

A Bakchan, A Roy, KM Faust - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Social distancing policies (SDPs) implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have
led to temporal and spatial shifts in water demand across cities. Water utilities need to …

Citywide wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels strongly correlated with multiple disease surveillance indicators and outcomes over three COVID-19 waves

L Hopkins, D Persse, K Caton, K Ensor… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Public health surveillance systems for COVID-19 are multifaceted and include multiple
indicators reflective of different aspects of the burden and spread of the disease in a …

Using a digital twin to explore water infrastructure impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic

JE Pesantez, F Alghamdi, S Sabu… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the daily pattern of activities
changed dramatically for people across the globe, as they socially distanced and worked …

Unraveling the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on Canadian municipal sewage

P Zhou, Z Li, S Snowling, J Barclay - Environmental Science: Water …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns have had significant impacts on various
aspects of society, including municipal sewage. This study investigates changes in …

Comparing rates of change in SARS-CoV-2 wastewater load and clinical cases in 19 sewersheds across four major metropolitan areas in the United States

M Al-Faliti, N Kotlarz, C McCall, AR Harris… - ACS ES&T …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There is no standard approach to interoperate the multiple SARS-CoV-2 wastewater
surveillance data sets generated during the pandemic. We tested several data processing …

A web-based spatial decision support system of wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 monitoring: a case study of a university campus

W Tang, T Chen, Z Slocum, Y Lan, E Delmelle, D Chen… - MedRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has produced substantial impacts on our society.
Wastewater surveillance has increasingly been introduced to support the monitoring, and …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution within-sewer SARS-CoV-2 surveillance facilitates informed intervention

K Reeves, J Liebig, A Feula, T Saldi, E Lasda… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
To assist in the COVID-19 public health guidance on a college campus, daily composite
wastewater samples were withdrawn at 20 manhole locations across the University of …

Stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced urban water use

D Li, RA Engel, X Ma, E Porse, JD Kaplan… - … & Technology Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
In response to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments instituted “stay-
at-home” orders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The resulting changes in work and …

Using detrending to assess SARS-CoV-2 wastewater loads as a leading indicator of fluctuations in COVID-19 cases at fine temporal scales: Correlations across …

K Hoffman, D Holcomb, S Reckling, T Clerkin… - PLOS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Wastewater surveillance emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic as a novel strategy for
tracking the burden of illness in communities. Previous work has shown that trends in …