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cord-338285-7rrq3o7n	Sivakumar, Bellie	COVID-19 and water	2020-07-09		.txt	text/plain	2178	101	54	I point out that our efforts to control the spread of COVID-19 will increase the water demand and worsen the water quality, leading to additional challenges in water planning and management. In view of the impacts of COVID-19 and other global-scale phenomena influencing water resources (e.g., global climate change), I highlight the urgent need for interdisciplinary collaborations among researchers studying water and new strategies to address water issues. Therefore, mitigating or controlling the spread of COVID-19 is highly challenging in these regions, as it necessitates identifying, accessing, and supplying significant quantity of additional water resources all around (not to mention the social-distancing). For instance, use of more water (and also soap and disinfectants) to wash one's hands to control the spread of COVID-19 will increase the quantity of wastewater, with perhaps even poorer quality, coming from homes, workplaces, and other public places.	./cache/cord-338285-7rrq3o7n.txt	./txt/cord-338285-7rrq3o7n.txt