Securing 2020 vision for 2030: climate change and ensuring resilience in water and sanitation services

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Howard ◽  
Katrina Charles ◽  
Kathy Pond ◽  
Anca Brookshaw ◽  
Rifat Hossain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Management Approaches ◽  
Sanitation Systems ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

Drinking-water supply and sanitation services are essential for human health, but their technologies and management systems are potentially vulnerable to climate change. An assessment was made of the resilience of water supply and sanitation systems against forecast climate changes by 2020 and 2030. The results showed very few technologies are resilient to climate change and the sustainability of the current progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) may be significantly undermined. Management approaches are more important than technology in building resilience for water supply, but the reverse is true for sanitation. Whilst climate change represents a significant threat to sustainable drinking-water and sanitation services, through no-regrets actions and using opportunities to increase service quality, climate change may be a driver for improvements that have been insufficiently delivered to date.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION IN INDIA UNDER THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2030

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Dr. Basanta Kalita
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Paris Declaration ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Development Goals

The SDGs agenda is the outcome of a series of international conferences on the issue of environmental sustainability. A principle of common and differentiated responsibility was endorsed by the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992) and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20 (2012). The political commitments from the world leaders were confirmed during the 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development held in Addis Ababa in July 2015 for a common policy on sustainable development. The goals are broad based and interdependent. Finally the Paris Declaration on Climate Change (2016) paved the way for the adoption of a comprehensive list of goals to be achieved by 2030. Each of the 17 sustainable development goals has a list of targets which are measured with indicators and are interdependent. The present study will be confined to the 6th goal which is ensuring “Clean water and Sanitation” in the Indian context. KEYWORDS: SDGs agenda, Climate Change, employment, sanitation services

Policy principles and implementation guidelines for private sector participation in the water sector — a step towards better results

2005 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Rothenberger ◽  
U. Frei ◽  
F. Brugger
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Sustainable Water Supply ◽  
Private Sector Participation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Implementation Guidelines ◽  
Multi Stakeholder ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

To achieve the Millennium Development Goals, all partners (public, private, NGOs) must be engaged for improving and expanding the water supply and sanitation services. Yet, high transaction costs, unclear role allocation and lack of trust and commitment put Private Sector Participation (PSP) at risk. The initiative “Policy Principles and Implementation Guidelines for Private Sector Participation in Sustainable Water Supply and Sanitation” contributes to equitable, effective, ecological and efficient PSP projects. Based on a multi stakeholder process, the Policy Principles are offering an open and transparent framework for the negotiation of valid, widely accepted and action-oriented solutions, while the Implementation Guidelines focus on success factors for building partnerships on the operational level.

A new paradigm for low-cost urban water supplies and sanitation in developing countries

Water Policy ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Mara ◽  
Graham Alabaster
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Supply ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Sanitation Systems ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

To achieve the Millennium Development Goals for urban water supply and sanitation ∼300,000 and ∼400,000 people will have to be provided with an adequate water supply and adequate sanitation, respectively, every day during 2001–2015. The provision of urban water supply and sanitation services for these numbers of people necessitates action not only on an unprecedented scale, but also in a radically new way as “more of the same” is unlikely to achieve these goals. A “new paradigm” is proposed for low-cost urban water supply and sanitation, as follows: water supply and sanitation provision in urban areas and large villages should be to groups of households, not to individual households. Groups of households would form (even be required to form, or pay more if they do not) water and sanitation cooperatives. There would be standpipe and yard-tap cooperatives served by community-managed sanitation blocks, on-site sanitation systems or condominial sewerage, depending on space availability and costs and, for non-poor households, in-house multiple-tap cooperatives served by condominial sewerage or, in low-density areas, by septic tanks with on-site effluent disposal. Very poor households (those unable to afford to form standpipe cooperatives) would be served by community-managed standpipes and sanitation blocks.

Strategies to close water supply and demand gap

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Gustaf Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
European Water ◽  
The World ◽  
And Control ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

The growing water and sanitation crisis in the world calls for enormous efforts from water professionals as well as economic and political leaders. The climate change contributes to the acuteness of the problem, with dryer areas in some parts of the world and severe floods and rains in other parts. The European Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform (WSSTP) is an industry driven organisation aiming to strengthen the potential for technological innovation and the competitiveness of the European Water Industry but is also a response to global challenges and regional demands to ensure safe, secure and sustainable water and sanitation services for the benefit of industry, the society and the environment. The supply of electrical energy has to be carefully considered as a pre-requisite for water supply and sanitation. The production of biogas can be significantly increased by using instrumentation and control. The use of monitoring and control has wide consequences for safe and reliable water supply and sanitation.

scholarly journals Global challenges in water, sanitation and health

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (S1) ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine L. Moe ◽  
Richard D. Rheingans
Keyword(s):  
Water Reuse ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Water Supplies ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Safe Water ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Basic Sanitation ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Sanitation Systems

The year 2005 marks the beginning of the “International Decade for Action: Water for Life” and renewed effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to reduce by half the proportion of the world's population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation by 2015. Currently, UNICEF and WHO estimate that 1.1 billion people lack access to improved water supplies and 2.6 billion people lack adequate sanitation. Providing safe water and basic sanitation to meet the MDGs will require substantial economic resources, sustainable technological solutions and courageous political will. We review five major challenges to providing safe water and sanitation on a global basis: (1) contamination of water in distribution systems, (2) growing water scarcity and the potential for water reuse and conservation, (3) implementing innovative low-cost sanitation systems, (4) providing sustainable water supplies and sanitation for megacities, and (5) reducing global and regional disparities in access to water and sanitation and developing financially sustainable water and sanitation services.

Reinforcing water and sanitation sector reform in South Africa

Water Policy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ola Busari ◽  
Barry Jackson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Universal Access ◽  
Sector Reform ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Remarkable Progress ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

Some ten years ago, South Africa's newly elected government inherited huge services backlogs with respect to access to water supply and sanitation. About 15 million people were without safe water supply and over 20 million without adequate sanitation services. Since then, the country has made remarkable progress with regard to accelerating the pace of services provision and restructuring and refocusing the entire water sector. Having ensured access to an additional population of over 10 million people, South Africa is well on track to wipe out the infrastructure backlog for basic water supply by 2008, exceeding the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target. But first, with respect to sanitation for which the national target is universal access to a functioning facility by 2010, the picture is somewhat different. Second, substantial challenges remain in addressing historical inequalities in access to both water supply and sanitation, and in sustaining service provision over the long term.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Implementation of Community-Based Water Supply and Sanitation Programs in Cihara Village, Lebak Regency

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Dini Ulfah Dianingsih ◽  
Rina Yulianti ◽  
Hasuri Waseh
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Evaluation Theory ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Infrastructure Maintenance ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

This study aims to evaluate the implementation of Community Based Drinking Water and Sanitation Provision III in Cihara Village, Cihara District, Lebak Regency. The theory used is the evaluation theory by Dunn (2003: 610), namely effectiveness, efficiency, adequacy, equity, responsiveness, and accuracy. The method used is descriptive with a qualitative approach. The result of this research is that the implementation of the PAMSIMAS III program in Cihara Village, Cihara District, Lebak Regency has not run optimally. Suggestions that become recommendations for supervision from related agencies after the construction of facilities is complete and there are efforts from related agencies to provide awareness to the community about the importance of PHBS, community self-help groups have strategies so that people can participate in the form of in-cash contributions and in deliberations, and the existence of cross subsidies for infrastructure maintenance fees for people who are economically underprivileged.

scholarly journals ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATION OF WATER SUPPLY AND SANITATION SERVICE SECTOR OF UKRAINE

World Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (5(45)) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iryna Krylova
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Atmospheric Precipitation ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Sanitation Services ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

The article deals with the sphere of services of water supply and sanitation of Ukraine as an object of public administration and regulation. The meaning of the notions "drinking water", "drinking water supply", "centralized water supply", "wastewater (sanitation)" and others are provided. The composition of water supply and sanitation services is analyzed. The questions of surface wastewater (water received and collected in the form of atmospheric precipitation), which are not included in the list of water supply and sanitation services, are considered. Modern models of management of enterprises of water supply and sanitation in Ukraine are considered, the overwhelming majority of which is direct communal management. The legal status and features of water supply and sanitation companies of communal property are determined. The peculiarities of realization of public-private partnership in the field of water supply and wastewater are considered, examples of existing lease / concession agreements of water supply and sanitation facilities are given. The legal principles of state regulation of the activities of water supply and sanitation enterprises and regulatory measures are considered. The legal principles and features of the state tariff policy in the field of water supply and wastewater are determined. The issues of quality of water supply and sanitation services, consumer rights protection and environmental regulation in the field of water supply and wastewater are considered.

scholarly journals Sistem Informasi Pengolahan Data Penyediaan Air dan Sanitasi Masyarakat (PAMSIMAS) berbasis Web

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Acep Irham Gufroni ◽  
◽  
Cecep Muhamad Sidik Ramdani ◽  
Haikal Millah ◽  
Miftahul Habib Fachrurozi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
The Government ◽  
Water Supply And Sanitation

The availability of clean water is a hope for the community to meet the needs of drinking sources and the availability of proper sanitation will prevent various diseases. So the government collaborates with villages in providing Community Based Drinking Water and Sanitation (PAMSIMAS). The PAMSIMAS program aims to increase the number of clean water facilities for communities in areas with low economic income levels. In the PAMSIMAS program in Tigaherang Village, Rajadesa District, Ciamis Regency, socialization steps are needed to the community to provide an understanding of clean water and sanitation, monitoring of clean water use and transparency of the PAMSIMAS program. To support its implementation, a Web-based Information System for Water Supply and Sanitation (PAMSIMAS) application design is proposed. This information system is expected to be able to optimize the performance and service of clean water for the community. Keywords: Community, PAMSIMAS Program (community based drinking water supply and sanitation), Information System.

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