Public Health Research: Are COVID-19 Shutdowns Affecting Water Quality?
Channel: Purdue University
Date: 2020-04-14

Despite shutdowns, Purdue University Research continues safely. Scientists study the public health side effects of water quality during building shut-downs due to COVID-19. 

While restaurants, gyms, schools, and other buildings are closed indefinitely to prevent the spread of COVID-19, water left sitting in pipes could change in quality. It’s possible that water left sitting for long periods of time could contain excessive amounts of heavy metals and pathogens concentrated in pipes nationwide, say researchers who have begun a field study on the impact of a pandemic shutdown on buildings. 

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