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Hygiene in Sanitation: the Fight Against COVID Thanks to Technology!

Hygiene in sanitation: the fight against COVID thanks to technology!
25 Mar 2021  |
Last September, we made a first assessment of the problem of wipes in wastewater and the upsurge in clogging linked to the overuse of disinfectant wipes in the fight against COVID-19.

6 months later we draw up a second assessment and we are now looking at a second direct impact of the COVID-19 health crisis: the safety of people in sanitation!

 Indeed, traces of coronavirus in wastewater are observed and analyzed as an epidemiological surveillance tool of the Obépine project (Epidemiological Observatory in Wastewater) in France. This consortium was created in April 2020 under the impetus of the Covid-19 Analysis, Research and Expertise (Care) Committee, which encouraged three research groups to work together for a wider objective.  Thus for several months now, the wastewater from 30 stations and soon 150 stations (out of the 20,000 in the country) are analyzed twice a week to study and map the evolution of COVID-19 and its variants.

Thus in this context of important circulation of the virus, we can wonder about the safety of the people working in the sanitation in contact with this contaminated wastewater.  What are the solutions?

The direct in-line pump DIP system offers an obvious safety in front of this risk of bacteriological and viral contamination: indeed the technicians and personnel in purification using our pumping systems are not in contact with the wastewater because the direct in-line pumping makes it possible to lift the effluents directly at the point of entry without going through a storage tank nor a chimney of loading.  Thus, where we already offered the comfort of operating a minimal station without any odor or cleaning, it is now obvious that the safety associated with the absence of contact with wastewater is essential.

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