• Sci. Total Environ. · Nov 2020

    Snowballing transmission of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) through wastewater: Any sustainable preventive measures to curtail the scourge in low-income countries?

    • Bashir Adelodun, Fidelis Odedishemi Ajibade, Rahmat Gbemisola Ibrahim, Hashim Olalekan Bakare, and Kyung-Sook Choi.
    • Department of Agricultural Civil Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea; Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, University of Ilorin, PMB 1515 Ilorin, Nigeria. Electronic address: adelodun.b@unilorin.edu.ng.
    • Sci. Total Environ. 2020 Nov 10; 742: 140680.

    AbstractIn this communication, we proposed sustainable preventive measures that may be adopted by the low-income countries to forestall the potential outbreak and transmission of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) through wastewater. Most low-income countries have poor sanitation and wastewater management policies, which create potential risks of COVID 19 spread. Hence, the proposed measures include decentralization of wastewater treatment facilities, community-wide monitoring and testing of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater samples, improved sanitation, developing point-of-use devices for wastewater decontamination, and more focused policy interventions. Therefore, this paper adds useful insights into the monitoring and management of ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in low-income countries.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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