Water Safety Plan demonstration projects in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons from the field

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angella Rinehold ◽  
Lana Corrales ◽  
Elizabeth Medlin ◽  
Richard J. Gelting
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Drinking Water Safety ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Water Safety Plan ◽  
The Caribbean

A Water Safety Plan (WSP) is a preventive, risk management approach to ensure drinking water safety. This emerging methodology is being increasingly applied in both industrialized and lower income countries worldwide. In 2006, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other local, national, and international partners in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) initiated a series of WSP demonstration projects. The objectives were to raise WSP awareness, build capacity, and promote adoption of the WSP approach while identifying those factors that aid or hinder water safety planning efforts in resource-challenged settings. This paper presents eleven lessons learned from these WSP demonstration projects, including the importance of assembling a well-supported interagency team, long-term commitment to WSP implementation, adherence to a water quality monitoring plan, and determining how WSP impacts will be evaluated prior to WSP initiation. To assist in supporting future WSP activity in the region, this paper shares experiences that led to these successes, challenges, and lessons learned.

Experiences and lessons learned from practical implementation of a software-supported Water Safety Plan (WSP) approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Mayr ◽  
Aditya Lukas ◽  
Wolfgang Aichlseder ◽  
Reinhard Perfler
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Drinking Water Safety ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Water Safety Plan ◽  
Health Organization

The Water Safety Plan (WSP) is considered the preferred approach to ensure drinking water safety by the World Health Organization (WHO). This approach ideally requires extensive scientific and technical input from a multidisciplinary team of experts. However, in small- and medium-sized municipalities in Austria, financial and personnel resources are usually of very limited availability. Therefore, a spreadsheet based WSP tool was designed to facilitate the implementation of the WSP approach at these small supply units. The WSP tool comprises the relevant national Austrian guidelines, which include the key components of the WSP by the WHO. The tool provides an overview of the required steps, explains how to carry out each step and guides the user through the three key components: system and hazards assessment, control measures and operational monitoring, and management. The practical application of the WSP tool was tested at 12 water utilities over a period of three months. After this period, the tool was improved based on collected feedback from the water utilities.

scholarly journals Applying the water safety plan to water reuse: towards a conceptual risk management framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 709-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Goodwin ◽  
M. Raffin ◽  
P. Jeffrey ◽  
H. M. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Water Reuse ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Risk Management Framework ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Water Safety Plan ◽  
Guidelines And Standards

The Water Safety Plan (WSP) is receiving increasing attention as a recommended risk management approach for water reuse through a range of research programmes, guidelines and standards.

scholarly journals Water safety: one of the primary objectives of our time

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Collivignarelli
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Water Safety Plan ◽  
The Eu

This article discusses the benefits of an innovative approach to the problem of water security introduced by WHO in 2004, through the establishment of the Water Safety Plan (WSP). It was recently included in Commission Directive (EU) 2015/1787 – October 6, 2015 – the implementation of which is expected in the EU countries by 27 October 2017. The WSP is the most effective means of consistently ensuring the safety of a drinking water supply. The method is based on the use of a comprehensive risk assessment and risk management approach that involves all steps in water supply from catchment to consumer. The knowledge acquired by some experiences of WSP application, both inItalyand in countries with limited resources, is proving the effectiveness of the model as the best way to manage drinking water systems and protect public health.

Success or failure: demonstrating the effectiveness of a Water Safety Plan

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Mudaliar
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Drinking Water Supply ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Performance Targets ◽  
Drinking Water Safety ◽  
Water Supply Management ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Water Safety Plan

The Water Safety Plan (WSP) concept has become a globally recognised and accepted approach to drinking water supply management and operation. Many countries around the world are adopting this proactive, risk-based model for ensuring consistent confidence in drinking water safety, accessibility and affordability. While it is widely accepted that the WSP concept is an appropriate tool for ensuring drinking-water supply efficiency, the process for gathering the required evidence to demonstrate this continues to be rather vague. The problem may lie fundamentally in the way WSPs are developed and implemented. This paper discusses the need for establishing performance targets, identifying key performance indicators and monitoring these to build a body of evidence that would be instrumental in demonstrating whether WSPs are effective or not.

From international developments to local practice: Germany's evaluation and dialogue process towards Water Safety Plan implementation

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Schmoll ◽  
Claudia Castell-Exner ◽  
Ingrid Chorus
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Dialogue Process ◽  
Water Safety Plan

The third edition of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality establishes a ‘Framework for Safe Drinking-water’ that promotes a risk assessment and risk management approach called Water Safety Plan (WSP). In Germany, the discussion on the WSP approach started with significant scepticism by various stakeholders questioning its added value in light of the high quality and service level of water supply. In response, the Federal Ministry of Health, the Federal Environment Agency and the DVGW Association for Gas and Water jointly took the leadership for initiating a sectoral dialogue process involving water suppliers and local public health offices, including a series of WSP pilot projects to evaluate WSP feasibility, benefits and expected challenges for scaling-up. As the regulatory system in Germany makes explicit reference to ‘generally acknowledged codes of good practice’ the paper also examines how far the suite of established DVGW technical and managerial standards already supports WSP implementation. The evaluation process confirmed an added value of the WSP approach under Germany's national conditions, clearly providing an impetus for safeguarding a high quality and service level of drinking-water supply. Various activities to support scale-up implementation of a WSP-type approach have been initiated, including the preparation of step-by-step guidance in German (i.e. DVGW Guidelines W 1001), information campaigns to broadly raise awareness amongst all stakeholders in water supply, and capacity building initiatives.

scholarly journals An index model for evaluating water safety plans in the Philippines

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1168-1177 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. B. Magtibay
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Index Model ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Water Safety Plan

Developing a water safety plan (WSP) is now a requirement for all service providers of drinking water in the Philippines. To assist compliance with the Philippine Department of Health (DOH), this study develops an index model that the DOH can use for evaluating WSPs and covers the WSPs of 14 water districts and 11 health care facilities. The WSP Index model was developed using a nine-step process and was tested in 25 WSPs to determine the robustness of its weights and benchmark. Approximately 21 WSPs received a passing mark when the 60% benchmark was used but only nine WSPs passed when the benchmark was raised to 74%. This Philippine model may be utilized by countries in evaluating the WSPs, and further adapted to their local context and considerations.

scholarly journals The Water Safety Plan Approach: Application to Small Drinking-Water Systems—Case Studies in Salento (South Italy)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 4360
Author(s):  
Francesca Serio ◽  
Lucia Martella ◽  
Giovanni Imbriani ◽  
Adele Idolo ◽  
Francesco Bagordo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Water Safety Plan ◽  
Drinking Water Systems

Background: The quality of water for human consumption is an objective of fundamental importance for the defense of public health. Since the management of networks involves many problems of control and efficiency of distribution, the Water Safety Plan (WSP) was introduced to address these growing problems. Methods: WSP was applied to three companies in which the water resource assumes central importance: five water kiosks, a third-range vegetable processing company, and a residence and care institution. In drafting the plan, the terms and procedures designed and tested for the management of urban distribution systems were applied to safeguard the resource over time. Results: The case studies demonstrated the reliability of the application of the model even to small drinking-water systems, even though it involved a greater effort in analyzing the incoming water, the local intended use, and the possibilities for managing the containment of the dangers to which it is exposed. This approach demonstrates concrete effectiveness in identifying and mitigating the dangers of altering the quality of water. Conclusions: Thanks to the WSP applied to small drinking-water systems, we can move from management that is focused mainly on verifying the conformity of the finished product to the creation of a global risk assessment and management system that covers the entire water supply chain.

DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WATER SAFETY PLAN FOR THE DRINKING WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM OF FLORENCE, ITALY

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 1813-1822
Author(s):  
Cecilia Caretti ◽  
Roberta Muoio ◽  
Leonardo Rossi ◽  
Daniela Santianni ◽  
Claudio Lubello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Supply System ◽  
Water Supply System ◽  
Drinking Water Supply ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Safety Plan ◽  
Water Safety Plan ◽  
Drinking Water Supply System
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