Abraham Geremew, A. Nijhawan, B. Mengistie, Dinku Mekbib, Adrian Flint, Guy Howard
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气候变化威胁着全球的供水安全,但中低收入国家快速发展和城市化城镇中的小型供水设施尤其面临风险。尽管埃塞俄比亚政府做出了努力,但研究表明,埃塞俄比亚的小城镇供水公司在优先发展和维护适应气候的供水服务方面能力不足。我们将 "讲卫生运动有多艰难"(How tough is WASH)框架应用于埃塞俄比亚东部的十个城镇供水公司,以确定它们在应对气候变化方面的优势和劣势。我们发现有报告称,服务部门的机构支持薄弱,培训中也未提及气候风险管理,这就导致服务提供商缺乏应急响应、人员配备不足和财务管理不善。这与之前关于城镇供水设施可持续性的研究相一致,并突出了该工具在现有监测框架中的适用性,这些框架已被提议用于埃塞俄比亚的城镇供水设施。我们还修改了 "讲卫生运动有多艰难 "框架,以捕捉这些发现并更好地反映公用事业管理的自来水供应的复杂性。
Climate resilience of small-town water utilities in Eastern Ethiopia
Climate change threatens the safety of water supplies globally, but small water supplies in rapidly growing and urbanizing towns in low- and middle-income countries are especially at risk. Despite the efforts of the Government of Ethiopia, research shows that that small-town water utilities in Ethiopia are poorly equipped to prioritize developing and maintaining climate-resilient water services. We applied the How tough is WASH framework for climate resilient water supplies to ten town water utilities in Eastern Ethiopia to identify their strengths and weaknesses in preparing for climate change. We found reports of weak institutional support from service authorities and exclusion of climate risk management from trainings, which cascades down to service providers in the form of lack of emergency response, inadequate staffing and financial mismanagement. This is consistent with previous studies on sustainability of town water utilities, and highlights the applicability of this tool into existing monitoring frameworks that have been proposed for town water utilities in Ethiopia. We also modified the How tough is WASH framework to capture these findings and better reflect the complexity of a utility-managed piped water supply.