WORKSHOP 7
Sanitation under Changing Climatic Conditions
We must rapidly adapt to climate change and its likely impact on
water tables and availability, rising sea levels, floods and droughts. Heavy rainfall and flooding can cause sewers to overflow and damage
or destroy sanitation installations. Severe consequences for human
and environmental health follow. Droughts will increase water stress
and impact water-borne sanitation. Adaptation efforts include trapping carbon in the biogenic zone by returning carbon from organic solid waste and sanitation systems to the soil.
Normal variability in weather and hydrological conditions impacts sanitation systems and poses critical challenges. Climate change increases the size and the scope of the challenge and puts enormous pressure on strategic planning while increasing the need to upgrade
and maintain sanitation infrastructure. Appropriate and robust total sanitation system solutions that can functionally withstand dramatic weather variations are needed.
The workshop will focus on the dynamics of the integrated policy options needed to adapt to changes in hydrological variability and catastrophic weather-related events.
Strategic approaches to manage and upgrade current infrastructure, and address critical lack of access to
sanitation, should be addressed. Case studies that
demonstrate innovative thinking and planning, decision making strategies and adapted service delivery are welcome.
Submit Abstract
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