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Despite the importance of mental health matters for people's well-being and the essential role of television to help spread medical issues, our study shows that the media coverage of this subject has been poor and somehow trivial during the so-called "pandemic fatigue" in Spain. This research focuses on the 24-hour television broadcast of five channels throughout 16 months, coding the content to identify trends and to know how media covered men-tal health topics all along seven days in January 2021. The analysis reveals a trivial representation of the topic, in-cluding irrelevant references to mental health that may not help make visible problems such as depression, anxiety, or stress. Instead, there seems to be a lack of rigorous analysis of the mental health conditions arising after the pan-demic. We can infer that private broad-casters have a more suitable approach when presenting data, describing people involved or taking advice from mental health professionals. Effective information on mental health requires deep messaging and medical recom-mendations or statements, but from this research, it turns out that there is a touch of frivolity in the way television approaches mental health issues.
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In recent years the quality of water and sewage treatment in Brazil is in evidence and widely discussed, due to the various cases of contamination by cyanobacteria and pathogens, giving prominence in this study: Geosmina, ZikaVirus and COVID-19, that impact water bodies. The purpose of this is to debate the current legislation and regulatory agencies that classify water quality, interpreting criteria for the preservation of aquatic life, the conservation of the areas that surround the rivers and their possible consequences for human health. The methodology was based on the literary review on national and international sites, in public bodies and institutions, the IVA – Aquatic Life Preservation Index (CETESB, 2017a/b) was defined as strategic for the preservation of the aquatic ecosystem and providing drinking water for human consumption. It was found as results: The diversity of 60 controlling agencies across the country discourage a centrality of data and control. ANA (2021) is only responsible for analyzing: pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity and temperature, without control devices to avoid contamination, and highlighted: CEDAE in repeated episodes of geosmina contamination in the Guandu River, which prove eutrophication of this body of water and the poor quality of the water supplied to the consumer, unpleasant odor and taste. © 2021, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. All rights reserved.