RE: Lifting of restrictions15 Feb 2022 08:30
I completely agree that the water monitoring offers loads of benefits, not just covid, and the BT will be able to detect an array of conditions.
I am just a little concerned, and perhaps i shouldnt be, that the general consensus is that covid is a little long in the tooth and any attempts to lockdown a given office building or town or whatever wouldnt go down well these days. Especially as anyone who catches covid in the months ahead won't actually have to suffer any restrictions. People in my office turn up with all sorts of bugs. The common cold never kept them at home, and mild covid won't be any different, especially with no need to isolate.
This is, of course, only the covid side of things and modern water mobile, BT and other MW units have a use beyond covid, but the pandemic very much thrust water monitoring into the limelight. When the pandemic goes away/becomes an insignificance to most, will waste water monitoring go the same way?
Waste water monitoring has been needed for decades. Forget the pandemic. Heavy metals, drugs, forever chemicals etc etc, and yet none of these factors have ever been enough to get goverments to do anything about it. Covid was the wake up call. I hope it packed a load of caffiene so that those who are currently taking notice don't fall asleep again.
I believe in the MW offering and i know water monitoring is essential. But few seemed to care until recently. I hope pandemic surveillance is the future and that we are at the centre of it