Resilient Water Supply and Sanitation Services : The Case of Japan
Natural disasters have increasingly damaged water supply and sanitation (WSS) facilities and infrastructure, leaving entire communities without safe and reliable drinking water and the appropriate disposal of wastewater. These emergency events coul...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/946581518158330102/Resilient-water-supply-and-sanitation-services-the-case-of-Japan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29351 |
| Summary: | Natural disasters have increasingly
damaged water supply and sanitation (WSS) facilities and
infrastructure, leaving entire communities without safe and
reliable drinking water and the appropriate disposal of
wastewater. These emergency events could arise from
inundation of facilities, loss of electricity, and exposure
and disruption of infrastructures. Less severe impacts can
arise from increased siltation of reservoirs and slow-onset
events such as droughts, thus having longer-term effects on
the resilience and reliability of services. These WSS
service failures or interruptions could set off a cascading
effect across interconnected infrastructure systems
including public health and fire services, which in turn
could pose both direct and indirect economic impacts. Japan
has built the resilience of its WSS services through an
adaptive management approach based on lessons learned from
past natural disasters. This experience offers key insights
for low- and middle-income countries seeking to sustain and
build resilience of WSS services. |
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