Water Safety Planning in Partnership with the Atlantic First Nations Water Authority: A Strategy for Water Regulation

与大西洋原住民水务局合作的水安全规划：水监管战略

• 批准号: 556367-2020
• 负责人: Gagnon, Graham
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=720110
• 关键词: Water; Safety; Planning; Partnership; Atlantic

Canada has struggled for decades with the challenge of providing safe drinking water and sanitation for all Canadians-particularly for its Indigenous communities. Accordingly, the Government of Canada has prioritized removing long-term boil water advisories (BWAs) in First Nations communities across Canada. Studies related to BWAs, particularly in First Nations have identified operational concerns as the leading cause of precautionary BWA issuance. Water safety plans (WSPs) represent a proactive method for managing risk in water supply systems. This method of managing risk has been conducted successfully in over 90 countries, either at a jurisdictional level or through case studies, but has not been developed extensively in Canada or in First Nations Communities. The WSP approach examined in this study provides a tool focused on prioritization of risk mitigation procedures such as operational hazardous events, instead of focusing solely on water quality monitoring programs. BWAs lack the sophistication to communicate information about risk in a water system and the WSP is a method acknowledged globally for its capacity to provide safe water to systems. The impact this research will have on the water systems will be instrumental to the First Nations communities. In particular, First Nations water operators will have the resources to identify hazards and assess risks which then can be used to develop a detailed improvement plan to help make informed decisions on the water system. This iterative process will ensure that each water system continues to evolve as hazards are mitigated and risks are lessened, resulting in long-term, sustainable, clean drinking water. This research program seeks to evaluate WSP sustainability and effectiveness and how WSPs can beintegrated into First Nations communities' water governance structure. This is a collaborative partnershipbetween the Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat, the Atlantic First Nations WaterAuthority, and Dalhousie University.

几十年来，加拿大一直在为所有加拿大人提供安全的饮用水和卫生局的挑战。因此，加拿大政府已优先考虑在加拿大的原住民社区中删除长期的沸水咨询（BWA）。与BWA相关的研究，特别是在原住民中，已将运营问题确定为预防性BWA发行的主要原因。 水安全计划（WSP）代表了一种用于管理供水系统风险的主动方法。这种管理风险的方法已在90多个国家（无论是在管辖权层面还是通过案例研究）成功地进行，但在加拿大或原住民社区尚未广泛开发。本研究中研究的WSP方法提供了一种侧重于降低风险程序（例如操作危险事件）优先级的工具，而不是仅专注于水质监测计划。 BWA缺乏与供水系统中有关风险的信息传达信息的复杂性，而WSP是一种全球认可的方法，因为它可以为系统提供安全的水。这项研究将对供水系统产生的影响将对原住民社区发挥作用。特别是，原住民将拥有资源来识别危害并评估风险，然后可以使用这些风险来制定详细的改进计划，以帮助对水系统做出明智的决定。这种迭代过程将确保随着危害减轻危害并降低风险，导致长期，可持续，干净的饮用水，每个水系统都会继续发展。 该研究计划旨在评估WSP的可持续性和有效性，以及如何将WSP纳入原住民社区的水治理结构。这是第一民族酋长秘书处，大西洋原住民水上运动和达尔豪西大学的大西洋政策大会之间的合作伙伴关系。