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Web platform addresses Covid-19 challenges A new website dedicated to collaboration and knowledge sharing in the water sector has been launched by technology consultancy Isle.
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ponsored by leading water industry partners, the Water Action Platform started as a response to Covid-19. The platform pools experience and expertise from utilities around the world and has grown to encompass a much wider range of topics. The Water Action Platform is open to all and will be especially useful to water utilities, technology companies, global industry groups, governments, and
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financial and academic institutions. This dynamic platform will catalyse experiences within the global water network to foster responses to Covid-19, at scale, to protect lives and livelihoods. “Only through targeted global collaboration and coordinated action can we assist with the response to and recovery from this unprecedented health emergency. We aim to identify ways to support utilities and minimise the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on communities around the world where we can,” says Piers Clark, chairman, Isle.
Six key learnings from the Water Action Platform technologies addressing 1 95Covid-19 issues
Technology will play a key role as utilities seek sustainable, viable solutions to Covid-19 challenges. Detailed research has identified 95 technologies with a role to play in virus detection, removal, monitoring and contingency, including: • 8 for detecting and monitoring for the presence of SARS-CoV-2
• 32 with a proven ability to remove or deactivate SARS-CoV-1 or 2 • 29 for supporting remote work • 26 that can help water utilities manage contingency in times of crisis.
technology offers early 2 Nanopore virus detection potential
A molecule-sensing technology developed by UK company Oxford Nanopore could be on the cusp of a breakthrough into the water sector due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The company has developed the only technology that offers the sequencing of native deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) along with genuine real-time monitoring. The technology has been successfully applied in other sectors and can identify the DNA and RNA of microorganisms or viruses in liquids by looking at the resistance created across the nanomembrane, which varies across different microbe species.
epidemiology is 3 Sewage increasingly valuable
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