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Including aspects of climate change into water safety planning: Literature review of global experience and case studies from Ethiopian urban supplies
Including aspects of climate change into water safety planning: Literature review of global experience and case studies from Ethiopian urban supplies
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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
222 (2019), Heft 5
222 (2019), Heft 5
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Trinkwasser, Klimaänderung
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VAN DEN BERG, Harold, Bettina RICKERT und Kasa BEKURE, 2019. Including aspects of climate change into water safety planning: Literature review of global experience and case studies from Ethiopian urban supplies. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health [online]. 2019. Bd. 222 (2019), Heft 5. DOI 10.60810/openumwelt-84. Verfügbar unter: https://openumwelt.de/handle/123456789/5294
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In recent years, the water safety plan approach has been extended towards climate-resilient water safety planning. This happened in response to increasing insight into impacts of climate on drinking-water and required adaptation to anticipated climate change. Literature was reviewed for published guidance and case examples, documenting how to consider climate in water safety planning to support future uptake. Climate-resilient water safety plans were piloted within a project in the water supplies of Addis Ababa and Adama, Ethiopia. Case examples have been published in four of six WHO regions with a focus on urban supplies. Integration of climate aspects focused mostly on the steps of establishing the team, system description, hazard analysis and risk assessment, improvement planning and development of management procedures. While the traditional framework focuses on drinking-water quality, considering climate change augments aspects of water quantity. Therefore, other factors affecting water quantity such as population development and demand of other sectors need to be considered as well. Local climate information and tools should be employed as a significant success factor for future uptake. Such information should be incorporated as it becomes available, and may - depending on the setting - be incrementally integrated into existing water safety plans or used to develop new ones. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.