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The how tough is WASH framework for assessing the climate resilience of water and sanitation
npj Clean Water ( IF 11.4 ) Pub Date : 2021-07-20 , DOI: 10.1038/s41545-021-00130-5
Guy Howard 1 , Anisha Nijhawan 1 , Maria Pregnolato 1 , Adrian Flint 2 , Manish Baidya 3 , Anish Ghimire 3 , Moti Poudel 3 , Subodh Sharma 3 , Eunice Lo 4 , Bizatu Mengustu 5 , Dinku Mekbib Ayele 5 , Abraham Geremew 5 , Tadesse Wondim 5
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Climate change presents a major threat to water and sanitation services. There is an urgent need to understand and improve resilience, particularly in rural communities and small towns in low- and middle-income countries that already struggle to provide universal access to services and face increasing threats from climate change. To date, there is a lack of a simple framework to assess the resilience of water and sanitation services which hinders the development of strategies to improve services. An interdisciplinary team of engineers and environmental and social scientists were brought together to investigate the development of a resilience measurement framework for use in low- and middle-income countries. Six domains of interest were identified based on a literature review, expert opinion, and limited field assessments in two countries. A scoring system using a Likert scale is proposed to assess the resilience of services and allow analysis at local and national levels to support improvements in individual supplies, identifying systematic faults, and support prioritisation for action. This is a simple, multi-dimensional framework for assessing the resilience of rural and small-town water and sanitation services in LMICs. The framework is being further tested in Nepal and Ethiopia and future results will be reported on its application.



中文翻译:

用于评估水和卫生设施的气候适应能力的 WASH 框架有多艰难

气候变化对水和卫生服务构成了重大威胁。迫切需要了解和提高复原力,特别是在低收入和中等收入国家的农村社区和小城镇,这些国家已经在努力提供普遍服务,并面临越来越多的气候变化威胁。迄今为止,缺乏一个简单的框架来评估水和卫生服务的弹性,这阻碍了改善服务的战略的制定。一个由工程师、环境和社会科学家组成的跨学科团队聚集在一起,研究开发用于低收入和中等收入国家的弹性测量框架。根据文献综述、专家意见和两个国家的有限实地评估,确定了六个感兴趣的领域。提出了使用李克特量表的评分系统来评估服务的弹性,并允许在地方和国家层面进行分析,以支持改善个别供应、识别系统故障并支持行动的优先级。这是一个简单的多维框架,用于评估中低收入国家农村和小城镇供水和卫生服务的恢复能力。该框架正在尼泊尔和埃塞俄比亚进行进一步测试,未来将报告其应用结果。用于评估中低收入国家农村和小城镇供水和卫生服务恢复能力的多维框架。该框架正在尼泊尔和埃塞俄比亚进行进一步测试,未来将报告其应用结果。用于评估中低收入国家农村和小城镇供水和卫生服务恢复能力的多维框架。该框架正在尼泊尔和埃塞俄比亚进行进一步测试,未来将报告其应用结果。

更新日期:2021-07-20
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