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https://reliefweb.int/report/world/un-water-chair-after-pandemic-we-must-build-hope-through-water-and-sanitation
The coronavirus has stopped the world in its tracks and while the pandemic threatens rich and poor alike, our ability to protect ourselves is far from equal. While we wait for the development of a vaccine or effective medication, good hygiene is part of our best defence. But how do you clean your hands, and keep your family safe, without a reliable water supply or a decent toilet, not to mention access to soap or sanitizer?
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, the consequences of chronic underinvestment in water and sanitation services for billions of people are becoming abundantly clear. Right now, the global focus is on helping families to survive this disease outbreak. But even as we get on top of the pandemic and save as many lives as possible, we need to build resilience for the future. Without action, we remain dangerously vulnerable to a range of growing threats:
Global demand for water is rocketing, while many water sources are becoming more polluted.
Agriculture is getting thirstier, as is industry, manufacturing and energy generation.
Climate change is making water scarcer and more unpredictable, wreaking havoc and displacing millions of people.
The United Nations Secretary-General has called for a comprehensive multilateral response amounting to a double-digit percentage of global gross domestic product (GDP). This is intended to address the financial shock of the recession.
But how can we use that investment to build the more inclusive and sustainable future we want and need? The economic case for investments in drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services is clear. In urban areas, every US dollar (USD) invested in basic sanitation returns USD 2.5 in saved medical costs and increased productivity. For drinking water, the average return is USD 3.0.
However, these investments must go beyond access to drinking water, sanitation and hygiene. Benefits are maximized only if investments are part of longer-term plans to ensure the sustainable management of water resources. The OECD calculates around USD 6.7 trillion is needed in global financing for water infrastructure.
Without strong water and sanitation systems and the integrated management of water resources we cannot make progress on health, education, food, energy, climate change and peace.
COVID-19 makes us acutely aware of our shared vulnerability and common destiny. Yet the extraordinary global disruption caused by the pandemic offers a unique opportunity, and a new hope, to “build back better”. With a shift in priorities, we can get the world on track to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, including SDG 6 – water and sanitation for all.
This is why the United Nations system is setting up a global framework to accelerate progress on SDG 6.
The only thing I'm happy about trillsg...........!
https://i2-prod.hulldailymail.co.uk/incoming/article4291461.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/0_sewage-map.png
Is that the red dots will be sorted.........!
for the greater good, and not just the locals here....... :)
All the best (continuous monitoring an all that :()
Being able to quantify the results( which they're working on) would increase its value considerably. I guess that's the beauty of having it linked to AI. Will it learn that through frequency of alerts and data from confirmed cases in a region? It's all very interesting.
Don't worry Gaza.......... !
we're practically neighbours ............ :()
All the best (also, I reckon there might be a reckoning :)
Oh great.
I live in East Yorkshire.
He sure is Stu, but before I carry on, bit of an "oops!" by me in that SloppyGuiseppe was my intended reply .......... :) no probs I'm sure... :) Gaza had it covered............. :()
And yep, totally agree that now Covid is on us. Eyes, ears and thoughts will defo look into the rivers and what has been "gotta way with!", if you know what I mean :) it's out there now.......!
Saw the tweet this morning, and local to it meself, although not a fisher it is a bit of a shocker for the non river frequenter.............!
Love a conspiracy BTW, and agree with that also...........!
All the best (South bank BTW ;()
Gerard is on the ball Chesh.
In my ongoing research I come across a number of articles (most of which Gerard and Sloppy Giuseppe have already highlighted). I often wonder what the correct protocol is for informing the writers of these articles about MWG and SKIN. I wonder if Gerard has a Company CV on standby to send out to every author.
Gerard posted on Twitter this morning about sewage release in East Yorkshire rivers. I fish the River Nidd in North Yorkshire and the thought of raw sewage contaminating the water, wildlife, recreational users of the river is frightening. The innocuous handling of a wet fishing line could lead to who knows what. I think more scary stuff will come out and maybe this is now the time to address these 'hidden dangers'. Lets get everything out in the open and have a bit of honesty and openness. My concern for MWG and SKIN is they may highlight problems that water companies prefer to keep hidden. Bit of a conspiracy theory but currently if they can claim they didn't know they had a problem, they don't have to pay to address it. A convenient truth.
Great find Sloppy Guiseppe.
Nice one Stu...........!
Gerard must feel a little smug (probs the wrong word :) at being somewhat ahead of the curve on this..........!
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern will no doubt be on his contacts list........... :()
All the best (continuous real time monitoring is the answer, they know that :()
What compounds the problem is that untreated sewage is finding it's way in to our rivers and water courses. At high load times this seems to be an acceptable norm for Water Companies to relieve the stress on their treatment systems and release in to rivers. Knowing what this waste carries, this can no longer be acceptable practice (if it ever was acceptable), and investment has to be made available to improve monitoring, improve infrastructure and increase accountability. Some changes to legislation required I feel and the resources to enforce it. MWG and SKIN have a big part to play in this I am sure.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1232858
In the United Kingdom, a group of researchers on Thursday launched a cross-country epidemiology surveillance program, dubbed N-WESP network, in what will become one of the biggest international undertakings looking into wastewater surveillance for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
They will be trying to develop models that would correlate viral RNA, the genetic material of the coronavirus, found in wastewater with the actual number of COVID-19 cases in the community that produced that wastewater in the first place.
Once the science matures, which will hopefully be on the order of a few months, we will be helping to provide the methods that will be used to generate the data needed to inform decisions on lockdown,” said Andrew Singer, the project’s chief researcher and senior scientist at the U.K. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.
The U.K. suffered the worst COVID-19 outbreak in Europe with more than 43,900 deaths and 313,000 cases, forcing millions of people into lockdown.
And British health authorities have been testing thousands of people every day to keep track of the virus’ spread as its economy reopens and lockdown restrictions are lifted. However, it’s usually people with symptoms or known exposure to confirmed cases that are screened. It is these asymptomatic people with no symptoms, who can still spread the virus, who are often missed.
That’s where researchers hope sewage testing can come in, using virus genetic material to conclusively quantify how many people in the population are shedding the virus at any given point in time. While it can’t identify which specific individuals have the virus, it gives a more immediate snapshot of the epidemiological situation in a community based on its wastewater profile.
It’s a potentially low cost, anonymous and immediate mechanism for predicting local outbreaks, said Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern, a professor of chemistry with the University of Bath, one of the researchers involved in the project.
“Wastewater can be really useful in understanding where the virus is spreading even if we don’t necessarily see increased numbers of people in the hospitals, because this happens later and not everyone gets symptoms, so we can provide a truly comprehensive picture of community wide infection,” she added.
The team will probe sewage in cities across England, Wales and Scotland and look at individual nodes in their wastewater systems that feed different parts of the city. That way, health officials can identify any possible hot spots within the confines of that city and move in with targeted restrictions in specific neighborhoods.
“The cost-benefit is, if you catch it early, you don’t lose an entire city and therefore furlough an entire city,” Singer said.
“One of the very few positive things that could come out of COVID-19 is that we recognize that there is data within our wastewater, and that data can b
Sounds good , Give me some skin man