{"id":13012,"date":"2020-03-12T12:27:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paawwa.org\/?p=13012"},"modified":"2020-03-12T12:31:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T16:31:29","slug":"water-treatment-practices-effective-against-covid-19-who-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/water-treatment-practices-effective-against-covid-19-who-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Water treatment practices effective against COVID-19, WHO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/waterfm.com\/water-treatment-practices-effective-against-covid-19-who-says\/\">Water treatment practices effective against COVID-19, WHO says<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications-detail\/water-sanitation-hygiene-and-waste-management-for-covid-19\">technical brief<\/a>\u00a0stating that current water treatment methods are expected to be effective against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>The brief noted \u201c[the] presence of the COVID-19 virus has not been detected in drinking-water supplies and based on current evidence the risk to water supplies is low.\u201d It also asserted \u201cconventional, centralized water treatment methods which utilize filtration and disinfection should inactivate COVID-19 virus\u201d and stated chlorination and UV treatment have been effective against other coronaviruses.<\/p>\n<p>Late last week, the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a CISA Insights\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/20_0306_cisa_insights_risk_management_for_novel_coronavirus.pdf\">bulletin<\/a>\u00a0addressing how organizations can manage risks associated with COVID-19. The document describes infrastructure protection measures, supply chain risks, and cybersecurity best practices that organizations should consider as they move to mitigate operational impacts of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies said it will continue to post updates on COVID-19 to its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amwa.net\/periodical\/sustainability-security-report\">Sustainability and Security Report<\/a>\u00a0and its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amwa.net\/novel-coronavirus-and-covid-19\">coronavirus resource page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 9, 2020 by <a href=\"https:\/\/waterfm.com\/author\/meghan\/\">WFM Staff<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source:<\/em> AMWA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water treatment practices effective against COVID-19, WHO says The World Health Organization (WHO) has released a\u00a0technical brief\u00a0stating that current water treatment methods are expected to be effective against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The brief noted \u201c[the] presence of the COVID-19 virus has not been detected in drinking-water supplies and based on current evidence the risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,14,7,5,11,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13013,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13012\/revisions\/13013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}