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Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 39 |
Journal | npj Clean Water |
Volume | 4 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Jul 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The funding for this study came from the University of Bristol Quality Related Global Challenges Research Fund.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
Research Groups and Themes
- Water and Environmental Engineering
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Beyond the networked city: building innovative delivery systems for water, sanitation and energy in urban Africa
Howard, G. (Principal Investigator), Robson Brown, K. (Co-Investigator), Pregnolato, M. (Co-Investigator), Agarwal, J. (Co-Investigator), Nijhawan, A. (Researcher), Williamson, S. (Co-Investigator) & Ray, C. R. (Researcher)
1/04/20 → 30/06/24
Project: Research
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Resilience of National Transport Networks to Flood-induced Bridge Failures
Pregnolato, M. (Principal Investigator)
1/11/18 → 31/05/22
Project: Research