Low Levels of Dissolved Oxygen in Drinking Water Supplied to the Population and Infectious Outbreaks in Irkutsk Reservoir (Baikal Region, Russia) and Durango, Guadalajara, and CDMX, Mexico

Abstract

The recent unexplained deaths of both adult and newborn patients in various regions of the world, apparently due to infections of unknown origin, are a concern for governments, health systems, and the general population, especially in relation to the relatively recent COVID 19 pandemic. There seems to be a widespread belief that epidemics or even pandemics are inevitable, as they have accompanied different human groups throughout history (Black Death, smallpox, polio, cholera, Spanish influenza, etc.). This has led to the frenetic development of vaccines and even worse to immunogenic therapy, and extreme measures such as confinement with disastrous socio-economic results. But when analyzing the circumstances in which the various epidemics and pandemics have occurred, the contamination of drinking water that is distributed to the general population is usually overlooked. For example, the Spanish flu began in the soldiers' camps in New York before leaving for Spain. But two million soldiers in transitional camps, with precarious sanitary facilities, were the perfect recipe for the contamination of the drinking water provided to them. And since then, as to date, analytical studies of the water have been done and continue to ignore the levels of dissolved oxygen in the drinking water supplied to the population.