Building resilience to drought in West Africa

摘要

In many areas of West Africa, standard approaches to water, sanitation and hygiene delivery don't prepare communities for managing threats to their water supply. Installing reliable, clean water supplies is vitalfor reducing water-related disease and cutting the amount of time communities spend collecting water. Combined with better sanitation and hygiene, clean water can transform lives by unlocking better health, education and livelihoods. However, without a strategy to identify and deal with threats to their water supply, communities remain vulnerable to changing water availability, varying water quality and competing demands for water. Rural communities outside the reach of local government and basin management authorities are particularly vulnerable.