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Title
RiPPLE - Learning about Community Water
and
Sanitation Action Plans
Abstract
Waterborne and sanitation related diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, hepatitis,
diarrhoea and typhoid claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Ethiopia each
year. In 2004 only 80 percent of the urban and 7 percent of the rural population had access
to improved water supply systems (UNICEF/WHO, 2006), and many of these are facing
important water quality problems. Considerable efforts are underway however to improve
the situation, with the result that the number of improved systems is growing but monitoring
and maintenance is not well developed.
Hence an urgent need exists to establish possible water pollution hazards and performance
problems in rural water supply and sanitation systems which can have adverse health effects
on consumers and mitigate these hazards where possible. Key water sector staff at Woreda
level from government agencies and NGOs is in a very good position to help communities to
ensure that their water and sanitation systems can be improved and sustained. To help
sector staff in this role a practical training course has been established.
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