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  • Putting WASH in the water cycle: climate change, water resources and the future of water, sanitation and hygiene challenges in Pacific Island Countries

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    Hadwen, Wade L
    Powell, Bronwyn
    MacDonald, Morgan C
    Elliott, Mark
    Chan, Terence
    Gernjak, Wolfgang
    Aalbersberg, William GL
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    Hadwen, Wade L.
    Year published
    2015
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    The Pacific region presents some of the lowest water and sanitation coverage figures globally, with some countries showing stagnating or even declining access to improved water and sanitation. In addition, Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are among the most vulnerable countries on the globe to extreme and variable climatic events and sea-level rise caused by climate change. By exploring the state of water and sanitation coverage in PICs and projected climatic variations, we add to the growing case for conserving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions within a holistic integrated water resource management (IWRM) ...
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    The Pacific region presents some of the lowest water and sanitation coverage figures globally, with some countries showing stagnating or even declining access to improved water and sanitation. In addition, Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are among the most vulnerable countries on the globe to extreme and variable climatic events and sea-level rise caused by climate change. By exploring the state of water and sanitation coverage in PICs and projected climatic variations, we add to the growing case for conserving water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions within a holistic integrated water resource management (IWRM) framework. PICs face unique challenges of increasing variability in rainfall (leading to drought and flooding), increasing temperatures, likely higher than average sea-level rise, all of which impact on freshwater security. Add to this geographic and economic isolation, and limited human and physical resources, and the challenge of WASH provision increases dramatically. In this setting, there is a stronger case than ever for adopting a holistic systems understanding, as promoted by IWRM frameworks, to WASH interventions so that they consider past and current challenges as well as future scenarios.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development
    Volume
    5
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2015.133
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    © IWA Publishing 2015. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. The definitive peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Journal of Water and Climate, Vol. 5 (2), pp. 183-191, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/washdev.2015.133 and is available at www.iwapublishing.com
    Subject
    Natural resource management
    Pacific Peoples environmental knowledges
    Environmental engineering
    Urban and regional planning
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/114074
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