Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge.

ABSTRACT: The outbreak of COVID-19 led to restrictions on movements and activities, which presented a serious challenge to the resilience of the water sector. It is essential to understand how successfully water companies responded to this unprecedented event so effective plans can be built for future disruptive events. This study aimed to evaluate how the water sectors in the UK and Ireland were affected from a holistic sustainability and resilience-based perspective. Using pre-COVID data for 18 indicators of company performance and comparing them to the first year of the pandemic, the direction and magnitudes of change varied across companies. Financial indicators were significantly negatively affected, with interest cover ratio, post-tax return on regulated equity, and operating

SUBMITTER: Walker NL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10080165 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature