Water Safety
Conference 2010
Engr. Joselito M. Riego de Dios
Philippine Strategy on Water Safety Plan Capacity Building
and Scaling up
Philippine Strategy on Water Safety Plan Capacity Building and Scaling up
OUTLINE
 Introduction of WSP in the Philippines
 Capacity Building Project on WSP
 National Strategy on WSP Scale-up
Water Safety Conference
November 2-4 2010, Kuching, Malaysia
Philippine Strategy on Water Safety Plan Capacity Building and Scaling up
Introduction of WSP in the Philippines
 WHO Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality 3rd edition, 2004
 2007 Phil. National Standards for Drinking Water
 Pilot Project thru WHO/AusAID supported bi-regional project
(2006 – 2008)
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Philippine Strategy on Water Safety Plan Capacity Building and Scaling up
Pilot Project
• DOH – WHO - MWSI partnership
• Development of tailored workshop and presentation
materials on WSP for the Philippines.
• Development of WSP for Maynilad Water Services, Inc.
(MWSI)
• training of WSP Team
• drafting of WSP
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Philippine Strategy on Water Safety Plan Capacity Building and Scaling up
Roll – out : Capacity Building Project for Water Districts
 World Health Organization (WHO), Department of Health
(DOH) and Philippine Waterworks Association (PWWA)
Partnership
• Established Core of WSP Trainers
• Developed Training Modules on WSP
• Conducted Series of Training on WSP
• 135 water districts
• 472 participants
• 16 WSP drafted
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November 2-4 2010, Kuching, Malaysia
Philippine Strategy on Water Safety Plan Capacity Building and Scaling up
WSP Training Module
Module 1:
Module 2:
Module 3:
Module 4:
Module 5:
Module 6:
Presentation of the Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water
Water Borne Diseases and Outbreak in the Philippines
Overview of WSP
Assembling a Team
Describing the System and Constructing a Flow Diagram
Workshop Output 1 and Presentation
Hazard Identification and Risk Analysis
Workshop Output 2 and Presentation
Overview of Control Measures
Overview of Operational Monitoring, Emergency Planning, Corrective
Actions and Critical Limits
Workshop Output 3 and Presentation
Development of Management Plan
Overview of Internal Auditing, Verification and Validation
Overview of Program and Management Procedures
and Documentation
Workshop Output 4 and Presentation
Overview of Gap Analysis & Organizing the Parts of a Water Safety Plan
Gap Analysis and Completing the Parts of a Water Safety Plan
Workshop Output 5 and Presentation
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Other Related Activities
 Advocacy and dissemination
• Integration in ADB and WB project activities
• WSP in various forum
• Philippine Society of Sanitary Engineers
conference
• PWWA conventions (2007 – 2009)
• 2nd National Sanitation Summit 2008
• National Consultation on Environmental Health for
Sanitary Engineers 2009
• MWCI has drafted their WSP (2010)
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National Strategy for WSP Scale-up
Policy and Institutional development
 Capacity Building
 Water Safety Development
 Advocacy
 Support to WSP
 Evidenced-based studies
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Policy and Institutional Development
 Technical assistance team that can support water utilities in
developing and completing WSPs
 Clearinghouse that can review completed WSPs
 Monitoring and evaluation system that will track the
 progress of WSP implementation and determine its
effectiveness
 Surveillance agency that can verify if water safety plan is
working
 Policy issuance for institutionalizing water safety plan in the
program of water utilities.
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Capacity Building
Training for all water districts and other relevant agencies
Accreditation of training institutions for WSP
Certification systems for WSP competencies (preparation,
review and auditing)
Integration of water safety plan into university curricula
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Water Safety Development
WSP for all water districts in urban areas
WSP for rural water supplies and community-managed
schemes
Auditing and verification program for WSP
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Advocacy
Advocacy to policy makers, regulators, educators, water
suppliers, donors
Conduct national consultation on WSP
WSPs as a tool for water quality monitoring
Compilation and publication of WSP
Sharing of experiences in various forum
Documentation of best practices
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Support to WSP
Regional laboratories for urban and rural monitoring
National WSP practitioners association with a website
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Evidence-based studies
Cost benefit and cost effectiveness of WSP
Economic losses due to waterborne disease outbreaks
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Conclusion
Water safety plan promotes innovation in water quality
management.
WSP should be built on partnership and continuous
collaboration
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