Water safety planning: adapting the existing approach to community-managed systems in rural Nepal
| Autor: | Andrew McMillan, Kathryn Fuller, Dani Barrington |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Nepali Engineering Sanitation business.industry Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Water supply Context (language use) Development Livelihood Pollution language.human_language Water safety plan Sewerage medicine language business Water resource management Waste Management and Disposal Environmental planning Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development. 3:392-401 |
| ISSN: | 2408-9362 2043-9083 |
| DOI: | 10.2166/washdev.2013.120 |
| Popis: | Water Safety Plans (WSPs) improve the quality and secure the quantity of drinking water supplies, and hence improve public health outcomes. In developing countries such as Nepal, thousands of residents die each year as a result of poor water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and WSPs show great promise for improving both health and livelihoods. The Nepali Non-Governmental Organisation Nepal Water for Health (NEWAH) has been working in partnership with Engineers Without Borders Australia and WaterAid Nepal to develop a WSP methodology suited to rural, community-managed water supply systems. Three pilot projects were undertaken incorporating community-based hazard management into the standard World Health Organization and Nepali Department of Water Supply and Sewerage WSP approaches. The successes and challenges of these pilots were assessed, and it was determined that community education, behaviour change, and the distribution of simplified WSP documentation to households and managers were essential to implementing successful WSPs within this context. This new WSP methodology is currently being mainstreamed throughout all of NEWAH's WASH projects in rural Nepal, as well as being shared with the wider Nepali WASH sector. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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