How can the safety of drinking-water be monitored globally? What definitions would be meaningful and assist decision-makers in the process of improving the drinking-water situation in the world? What research and development efforts are needed to come up with a rapid, reliable and cost-effective way of measuring water quality indicators locally and reporting on them at the global level. Since the decision in 2000 to adopt a method based on nationally representative household surveys, the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) has explored options to report on the safety of drinking-water supplies. In this connection, between 2002 and 2008 the rapid assessment of drinking-water quality (RADWQ) project was designed, implemented and documented in a number of pilot countries where the quality of drinking-water from improved sources was evaluated. [authors abstract of the project]
| Title | Rapid assessment of drinkingwater quality in the republic of Tajikistan : country report of the pilot project implementation in 2004-2005 |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Authors | Aliev, S, Shodmonov, P, Babakhanova, N, Schmoll, O |
| Pagination | xi, 69 p.; 3 fig.; 30 tab. |
| Date Published | 2010-01-01 |
| Publisher | World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Place Published | Geneva, Switzerland |
| ISSN Number | 9789241500593 |
| Keywords | drinking water, statistics, tajikistan, water quality, who/unicef joint monitoring programme |
| Abstract | During 2004 and 2005 the Republic of Tajikistan and five other countries participated in a World Health Organization/United Nations Children’s Fund (WHO/UNICEF) pilot project to test a rapid, low-cost, field-based technique for assessing water quality. The project was named the Rapid Assessment of Drinking-Water Quality (RADWQ), and its purpose was to develop a tool that would help the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme monitor global access to safe drinking-water. The RADWQ methodology is based on the UNICEF Multiple Indicators Cluster Surveys and uses cluster sampling across a country to select individual drinking-water sources for testing. The number and types of parameters used to test the drinking-water sources will depend on the extent of the survey and on local potential health hazards. The output of a RADWQ survey is a snapshot of drinkingwater quality for each improved source tested. In Tajikistan, four field teams visited 1620 sample sites in 53 clusters over a period of six months (from October 2004 to April 2005). The samples were taken from four broad areas (Khatlon; Rayons under direct Republican Subordination (RRS) & Dushanbe; Sughd; and Gorno-Badakhshan |
| Notes | With references on p. 38. |
| Custom 1 | 822 |
