Risk management in water and sanitation systems
In search of answers to new challenges

Rapidly changing conditions, such as environmental pollution which has led to deterioration of primary water sources, and other factors such as uncontrolled urban growth, are forcing the water and sanitation sector to strive for improvements in its technology and its planning and design methods. (More)

Pereira, Colombia
Risk management as a crosscutting process

The current management of Pereira, Colombia’s water and sanitation system has recognized that integral risk management must be a crosscutting process spanning all routine activities of the company. (More)

Sharing Lessons from Ecuador

Several volcanic eruptions over the last four years in Ecuador provided the context for water and sanitation agencies to implement disaster mitigation measures in vulnerable components of their systems. (More)

Central American countries target water and sanitation systems for vulnerability reduction

For the past several years, prompted in large measure by the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Mitch in late 1998, several Central American countries have stepped up their efforts to reduce the vulnerability of their water and sanitation systems. (More)

Information Resources on Water and Disasters

CRID, the ISDR and PAHO have collaborated on a new CD entitled Information Resources on Water and Disasters. (More)

Costa Rica
En route to a Risk Management Unit

The fruitful work carried out by the Technical Committee on Disaster Prevention and Mitigation of the Costa Rican Water and Sanitation Institute (A&A) has not gone unheeded. (More)

New from PAHO/WHO

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WHO explores countries’ capacity to reduce the vulnerability of water and sanitation systems

The Water, Sanitation and Health Program of the World Health Organization is carrying out a global survey to determine what actions individual countries and their water and sanitation systems have taken to date to reduce vulnerability to emergencies and disasters and the capacities that exist in each country. (More)

IDB striving to incorporate risk management in water and sanitation projects

For several years, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has had a specific policy on disaster risk management and financial cooperation in disaster situations, which forms part o f the Bank’s sectoral policies. (More).