An examination of the potential added value of water safety plans to the United States national drinking water legislation

Baum, Rachel; Amjad, Urooj; Luh, Jeanne; Bartram, Jamie

doi:10.1016/j.ijheh.2014.12.004

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“…Since then, WSPs are being implemented in water utilities in both developed and developing countries [9,13,16,18,19,25]. Up to now, over thirty five countries worldwide have multiple drinking water systems that are proven to implement WSPs at a voluntary or mandatory level as well as equivalent risk management systems under other names [35]. Among them, several water utilities of Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom implement some form of WSPs or equivalent systems in order to ensure the safety of drinking water [15,18].…”

Section: Wsps Implementation In European Countriesmentioning

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A Critical Evaluation of Water Safety Plans (WSPs) and HACCP Implementation in Water Utilities

Tsoukalas

Tsitsifli

2018

EWaS3 2018

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Abstract:The use of traditional risk management systems has proven to be insufficient to safeguard the safety of drinking water. Nowadays, it is preferable to apply preventive instead of corrective systems. Two of the most commonly used systems are the Hazard Assessment and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and the Water Safety Plans (WSPs). The major benefit of their implementation is the improvement of drinking water quality. Of course, the successful implementation of HACCP and WSPs in water utilities can be limited by a number of factors such as the lack of financial resources. However, the importance of implementation's difficulties is minimal in relation to the benefits that may result from the application of HACCP and WSPs in water utilities.

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Section: Wsps Implementation In European Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Critical Evaluation of Water Safety Plans (WSPs) and HACCP Implementation in Water Utilities

Tsoukalas

Tsitsifli

2018

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“…On the other hand, Baum and colleagues' study showed that there was a discrepancy between the regulatory and supervisory practices as well as the risk assessment step with US drinking water laws (20). It seems that the system weaknesses are related to the steps that require adequate and specific funding, as well as management practices that have been so far traditionally carried out and WSP has been partially implemented till now.…”

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Conducting a Water Safety Plan (WSP) Relied on WHO Recommendations for the Assessment of Qom Desalinated Water Supply System

Shafiei¹,

Khazaei²,

Nabizadeh³

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Avicenna J Environ Health Eng

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This work aimed to apply the water safety plan (WSP), a plan suggested by the World Health Organization (WHO), to evaluate desalinated water supply system in Qom province of Iran, assisting a systematic prevention approach based on risk assessment. Major portion of Qom drinking water is supplied by an integrated membrane-based desalination system through a private water network. WSP includes 12 phases comprising chapters like "System Description", "Hazard Identification", and "Risk Assessment". The abovementioned phases were conducted according to filled checklists which finally served as the input data for WSP software, namely WSP QA Tool. The processed information by the software attributed to each step was presented finally as appropriate tables and histograms. Total score obtained for Qom desalinated water supply system via WSP was 302 whereas, the full obtainable score considered in WSP was 440. Accordingly, 68.6% of the total WSP obtainable scores was acquired. The scores achieved in steps "catchment", "treatment", "distribution", and "point of use" were 67%, 67%, 64%, and 65%, respectively. The minimum obtained score was 25% assigned to the step "Improvement Plan". The maximum scores were 100% and 97% attributed to "Identification of Stakeholders" and "Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment", respectively. The score of 68.6% from WSP was achieved by Qom desalinated water supply system. The step "Improvement Plan" should be performed simultaneously with the entire WSP to improve the coordination for better enforcement of the plan. To enhance the current condition, the funding demands assigned to each uncontrolled risk which is attributed to each improvement program must be supplied, ranked, and enforced.

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“…Water Safety Plans (WSP), which are based on HACCP methodology, have improve water risk management in industrial and developing countries and have become a part in drinking water regulations (Maelzer et al 2010). Several studies show that also systems considered to have high water quality and level of water safety can benefit from implementing WSP even if many of its elements already are in place (Baum et al 2015, Gunnarsdottir et al 2012, Schmoll et al 2011. Although Swedish regulations require HACCP, a further implementation of WSPs may improve risk management.…”

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Drinking water risk assessment in practice: the case of Swedish drinking water producers at risk from floods

2016

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To achieve a safe and reliable drinking water supply, water producers need to manage a large range of risks regarding both water quality and quantity. A risk management approach where risks are systematically identified and handled in a preventive manner is promoted by the World Health Organization and supported by researchers and drinking water experts worldwide. Risk assessment is an important part of such a management approach, and a variety of tools for risk assessment are described in the literature. There is, however, little knowledge of how drinking water risk assessment is performed in practice, including which tools that are actually used. This study investigates the use of risk assessment tools, and the approach to risk management, on a local level in the Swedish water sector. It is based on interviews with key persons from a targeted selection of water producers. We find that the application of tools as well as the approach to risk assessment and management differs considerably between the water producers. The tools most frequently used are mainly the ones promoted or required by Swedish national organizations. Although many of the water producers have done some kind of risk assessment, most have not implemented a risk management approach. Furthermore, their knowledge of the concepts of risk and risk management is often limited. The largest challenge identified is to prioritize risk assessment, so that it is actually performed and then used as a basis for managing risk in a systematic way.

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An examination of the potential added value of water safety plans to the United States national drinking water legislation

Cited by 45 publications

References 7 publications

A Critical Evaluation of Water Safety Plans (WSPs) and HACCP Implementation in Water Utilities

A Critical Evaluation of Water Safety Plans (WSPs) and HACCP Implementation in Water Utilities

Conducting a Water Safety Plan (WSP) Relied on WHO Recommendations for the Assessment of Qom Desalinated Water Supply System

Drinking water risk assessment in practice: the case of Swedish drinking water producers at risk from floods

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