A disaggregated assessment of national water security: An application to the river basins in Thailand

Babel, Mukand S.; Chapagain, Kaushal; Shinde, Victor R.; Prajamwong, Somkiat; Apipattanavis, Somkiat

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115974

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“…Ensuring safe water and enhancing water security is a major concern in light of the effects of changing climate, increasing population and urbanisation, as well as intensive socioeconomic development and extensive land-use changes (Babel, Chapagain, Shinde, Prajamwong, & Apipattanavis, 2022). Initially viewed as a water scarcity issue, the concept of water security has evolved over time and is now looked at holistically, encompassing several dimensions (Cook & Bakker, 2012;Chapagain et al, 2022).…”

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“…Initially viewed as a water scarcity issue, the concept of water security has evolved over time and is now looked at holistically, encompassing several dimensions (Cook & Bakker, 2012;Chapagain et al, 2022). A widely accepted definition of water security provided by UN-Water (2013) Water security assessment has received increasing attention from academicians, practitioners, planners, and policy-and decisionmakers, with varieties of frameworks developed for different scales (Sullivan, 2002;Vörösmarty et al, 2010;Grey & Sadoff, 2007;Cook & Bakker, 2012;van Leeuwen & Chandy, 2013;UN-Water, 2013;Gerlak et al, 2018;Assefa, Babel, Sušnik, & Shinde, 2018;Krueger, Rao, & Borchardt, 2019;Jensen & Wu, 2018;Aboelnga, Ribbe, Frechen, & Saghir, 2019;Young et al, 2019;Chang & Zhu, 2020;Babel, Shinde, Sharma, & Dang, 2020;Khan, Guan, Khan, & Khan, 2020;Chang & Zhu, 2021;Zakeri, Mirnia, & Moradi, 2022;Chapagain et al, 2022;Babel et al, 2022;GWP, 2000;ADB, 2013ADB, , 2016WEF, 2020).…”

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How to measure urban water security? An introduction to the Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT)

2023

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The objective of the project was to develop a web-based digital tool called the Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT) to help city authorities and decision-makers make an objective evaluation of the water security situation in the city. It uses an indicator-based methodology that measures five distinct dimensions (broad elements) of water security: “Water supply and sanitation”, “Water productivity”, “Water-related disasters”, “Water environment”, and “Water governance”, which together culminate into a Water Security Index (WSI). The tool is developed based on the water security assessment framework developed by Babel, Dang, Sharma, and Shinde (2015). WATSAT results in a quantitative assessment of water security in a city, wherein the WSI provides an overall picture of the water security situation in a city, while the evaluation of the various dimensions helps identify areas of concern. WATSAT aids city authorities in having a holistic understanding of water security and interconnections of various factors affecting it and assists them in informed decision-making to arrive at system-based interventions to tackle water security threats in the cities.

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confidence: 99%