scholarly journals Application of Seawater Plant Technology for supporting the Achievement of SDGs in Tarawa, Kiribati

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Mi-Yeon Choi ◽  
Ho Ji ◽  
Ho-Saeng Lee ◽  
Deok-Soo Moon ◽  
Hyeon-Ju Kim
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Seawater Desalination ◽  
Ocean Engineering ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Korea Research Institute ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
The Republic

Pacific island countries, including Kiribati, are suffering from a shortage of essential resources as well as a reduction in their living space due to sea level rise and coastal erosion from climate change, groundwater pollution and vegetation changes. Global activities to solve these problems are being progressed by the UN's efforts to implement SDGs. Pacific island countries can adapt to climate change by using abundant marine resources. In other words, seawater plants can assist in achieving SDGs #2, #6 and #7 based on SDGs #14 in these Pacific island countries. Under the auspice of Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO) established the Sustainable Seawater Utilization Academy (SSUA) in 2016, and its 30 graduates formed the SSUA Kiribati Association in 2017. The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries (MOF) of the Republic of Korea awarded ODA fund to the Association. By taking advantage of seawater resource and related plants, it was able to provide drinking water and vegetables to the local community from 2018 to 2020. Among the various fields of education and practice provided by SSUA, the Association hope to realize hydroponic cultivation and seawater desalination as a self-support project through a pilot project. To this end, more than 140 households are benefiting from 3-stage hydroponics, and a seawater desalination system in connection with solar power generation was installed for operation. The Association grows and supplies vegetable seedlings from the provided seedling cultivation equipment, and is preparing to convert to self-support business from next year. The satisfaction survey shows that Tarawa residents have a high degree of satisfaction with the technical support and its benefits. In the future, it is hoped that SSUA and regional associations will be distributed to neighboring island countries to support their SDGs implementations.

scholarly journals Health Impacts of Climate Change in Pacific Island Countries: A Regional Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptation Priorities

2016 ◽  
Vol 124 (11) ◽  
pp. 1707-1714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lachlan McIver ◽  
Rokho Kim ◽  
Alistair Woodward ◽  
Simon Hales ◽  
Jeffery Spickett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Regional Assessment ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Empowering rural communities: simple Water Safety Plans

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. J. Hasan ◽  
A. Hicking ◽  
J. David
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Hydrogen Sulfide ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Marshall Islands ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Safety Issues ◽  
Drinking Water Safety ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
The Republic

Every year 2800 deaths in Pacific island countries result from diarrhoea, and most are children under five years of age. These tragic diarrheal deaths are preventable as they are often linked to unsafe water, lack of proper sanitation facilities and poor hygienic practices. Effective preventive management through the framework of a drinking Water Safety Plan (WSP) is an efficient mechanism for ensuring the safe quality of drinking water thereby reducing the burden of water related diseases. The large proportion (81%) of people in Pacific island countries living in rural or outer island communities mostly have their own water supply (for example rainwater tanks or hand-dug wells), and often the water is consumed untreated. The remoteness and isolation of these rural communities prevent national surveillance authorities to regularly visit and provide advice on drinking water safety issues. In such circumstances empowering rural communities to ensure the safety of their drinking water, through trained local facilitators, could be promoted and utilised effectively. However, WSPs for rural communities have to be relatively simple hence tools such as modified sanitary inspections and the presence/absence hydrogen sulfide test could be used. The approach of empowering communities through trained local facilitators to promote the WSP framework has been implemented in the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI). Positive feedback has been received by trained facilitators in RMI on the use of modified sanitary inspections (translated into Marshallese) and the hydrogen sulfide test. It is believed that the approach of empowering communities on WSPs through training local facilitators and equipping them with the above mentioned simple tools is effective and has potential for further replication in rural Pacific communities to improve drinking water quality and reduce the burden of water related diseases.

scholarly journals Putting WASH in the water cycle: climate change, water resources and the future of water, sanitation and hygiene challenges in Pacific Island Countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wade L. Hadwen ◽  
Bronwyn Powell ◽  
Morgan C. MacDonald ◽  
Mark Elliott ◽  
Terence Chan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Sanitation And Hygiene ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Countries

The Pacific region presents some of the lowest water and sanitation coverage figures globally, with some countries showing stagnating or even declining access to improved water and sanitation. In addition, Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are among the most vulnerable countries on the globe to extreme and variable climatic events and sea-level rise caused by climate change. By exploring the state of water and sanitation coverage in PICs and projected climatic variations, we add to the growing case for conserving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions within a holistic integrated water resource management (IWRM) framework. PICs face unique challenges of increasing variability in rainfall (leading to drought and flooding), increasing temperatures, and likely higher than average sea-level rise, all of which impact on freshwater security. Add to this geographic and economic isolation, and limited human and physical resources, and the challenge of WASH provision increases dramatically. In this setting, there is a stronger case than ever for adopting a holistic systems understanding, as promoted by IWRM frameworks, to WASH interventions so that they consider past and current challenges as well as future scenarios.

Health Issues of Climate Change in Pacific Island Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (1) ◽  
pp. 3021
Author(s):  
Lachlan MacIver ◽  
Jyotishima Naicker ◽  
Kristie L Ebi* ◽  
Rohko Kim
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Pacific Island Countries
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