Optimizing access to drinking water in remote areas. Application to Nepal

Laporte, Gilbert; Rancourt, Marie–Ève; Rodríguez-Pereira, Jessica; Silvestri, Selene

doi:10.1016/j.cor.2021.105669

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“…Regarding this target 6.1, Feizizadeh et al 2021 performed spatial modeling of metropolitan drinking water usage trends in the context of a drinking water sustainability assessment at Tabriz city. Though the monitoring and planning for the targets are set correctly using GIS, government policy sometimes stands in front as a barrier—the one‐size‐fits‐all approach results in disparities in access to safely managed water between urban and rural areas (Adams & Smiley, 2018; Laporte et al, 2022). Zonal statistics was a preferred tool while monitoring target 6.1 in the literature.…”

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A systematic review on the role of geographical information systems in monitoring and achieving sustainable development goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Baskaran¹,

Velkennedy²

2022

Sustainable Development

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The world has changed dramatically in the last two decades due to human intervention at regional and global levels. The fates of humanity and our planet are in our hands. Governments, international agencies, the corporate sector, and individuals must work together to shift away from unsustainable practices. The U.N. General Assembly endorsed the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development, which comprises 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Several published research supports SDG strategies in the last 5 years. Despite initial efforts, the U.N. declared that the world is not really on pace to achieve most SDG targets. Geographic information system (GIS) has been identified as an effective tool in accessing, monitoring, and achieving goals that have 15 years lifespan. This paper presents a systematic review of published articles that combined GIS and SDG in their research. Because these 17 goals include 169 targets, the assessment may be more difficult if all the goals were addressed. This study focused only on “SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation” literature. Google scholar was used to find the most relevant 25 studies. The variable attributes like SDG target addressed, study area, monitoring and improving strategies dealt, the particularity of GIS were analyzed in the literature review through content analysis. The systematic review has found that target 6.1 received enormous attention, and the inverse distance weightage (IDW) interpolation tool from the geostatistical analysis toolset was widely employed in the monitoring stage.

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Section: Literature Analysismentioning

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A systematic review on the role of geographical information systems in monitoring and achieving sustainable development goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Baskaran¹,

Velkennedy²

2022

Sustainable Development

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“…Some studies have been carried out in examining earthquake-drinking water in the context of Nepal's 2015 earthquake. For example, Laporte et al (2022) proposed the (theoretical) water system model that helps optimize access to drinking water in Gorkha and Dolakha districts. Likewise, Mishra and Acharya (2019) assessed the performance of drinking water in providing safe water in the Aginchock and Salyankot VDC of the Dhading district.…”

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Natural Disaster and Households’ Access to Drinking Water: Evidence from Nepal’s Earthquake

Adhikari

2022

Economic Journal of Nepal

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Natural disasters like landslides, droughts, floods, and earthquakes have consistently shown adverse effects on households’ access to safe and affordable drinking water. This study examines the impact of natural disaster on household access to drinking water taking a case of Nepal’s 2015 Earthquake. Drawing on data from four rounds of the Annual Household Survey (AHS) spanning from 2013/14 to 2016/17, the study employs a difference-in-difference research design to examine how households were impacted in accessing drinking water in the earthquake affected districts of Nepal. The results reveal that households in earthquake affected regions experience a decline in the use of piped drinking water by six-percentage-points compared to other sources of water notably wells, spring and rivers. Concurrently, there was a corresponding increase in the use of open water sources, particularly rivers and springs, for drinking among these households. These findings underscore that during disaster, sources like rivers and spring water can serve as essential alternatives for households, especially in the Hill and Mountain regions of Nepal, where other drinking water alternatives are less feasible. However, it is an important to note that these open water sources are often deemed unsafe for consumption and carry potential health risks. In light of these insights, this study emphasizes the necessity for disaster preparedness plans to prioritize establishing mechanisms that guarantee the safety of such open water sources for drinking during natural disaster and extreme events in the future.

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Multi-period location routing: An application to the planning of mobile clinic operations in Iraq

González

Cherkesly

Crainic

et al. 2023

Computers & Operations Research

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Optimizing access to drinking water in remote areas. Application to Nepal

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

A systematic review on the role of geographical information systems in monitoring and achieving sustainable development goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

A systematic review on the role of geographical information systems in monitoring and achieving sustainable development goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Natural Disaster and Households’ Access to Drinking Water: Evidence from Nepal’s Earthquake

Multi-period location routing: An application to the planning of mobile clinic operations in Iraq

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