Linking water quality monitoring and climate-resilient water safety planning in two urban drinking water utilities in Ethiopia
| Autor: | Altaseb Azezew, Solomon Tadesse, Harold H. J. L. van den Berg, Seada Ibrahim, Daniel Truneh, Hailu Gichile, Kasa Bekure, Samson Girma, Firehiwot Abera, Tesfaye Legesse, Tadesse Belayneh, Ingmar Janse, Ana Maria de Roda Husman, Gretta Lynch, Seble Girma, Zeleke Teferi, Bettina Rickert |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Microbiology (medical)
media_common.quotation_subject Climate Change Climate change 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Risk Assessment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Water Supply Urbanization Water Quality medicine Humans Quality (business) 030212 general & internal medicine Waste Management and Disposal Environmental planning Risk management 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Water Science and Technology media_common Risk Management business.industry Drinking Water Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Waterborne diseases medicine.disease Infectious Diseases Agriculture Environmental science Water quality Ethiopia business Risk assessment |
| Popis: | Unsafe drinking water is a recognized health threat in Ethiopia, and climate change, rapid population growth, urbanization and agricultural practices put intense pressure on availability and quality of water. Climate change-related health problems due to floods and waterborne diseases are increasing. With increasing insight into impacts of climate change and urbanization on water availability and quality and of required adaptations, a shift towards climate-resilient water safety planning was introduced into an Ethiopian strategy and guidance document to guarantee safe drinking water. Climate-resilient water safety planning was implemented in the urban water supplies of Addis Ababa and Adama, providing drinking water to 5 million and 500,000 people, respectively. Based on the risks identified with climate-resilient water safety planning, water quality monitoring can be optimized by prioritizing parameters and events which pose a higher risk for contaminating the drinking water. Water quality monitoring was improved at both drinking water utilities and at the Public Health Institute to provide relevant data used as input for climate-resilient water safety planning. By continuously linking water quality monitoring and climate-resilient water safety planning, utilization of information was optimized, and both approaches benefit from linking these activities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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