COVID-19 and surface water quality: Improved lake water quality during the lockdown
Chengdu University of Technology · National Institute for Environmental Studies
Abstract
Human life comes to a standstill as many countries shut themselves off from the work due to the novel coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) that hit the world severely in the first quarter of 2020. All types of industries, vehicle movement, and people's activity suddenly halted, perhaps for the first time in modern history. For a long time, it has been stated in various literature that the increased industrialization and anthropogenic activities in the last two decades polluted the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Since the industries and people's activities have been shut off for a month or more in many parts of the world, it is expected to show some improvement in the prevailing conditions in the…
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3Topics & keywords
- Hydrosphere
- Water quality
- Turbidity
- Environmental science
- Surface water
- Physical geography
- Hydrology (agriculture)
- Air quality index
- Clean water and sanitation