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Integrated risk management to protect drinking water and sanitation services facing natural disasters [1]

This report explains the concept of integrated risk management, a strategic and proactive approach to anticipating, assessing and managing natural events. By analysing the main risks and investing in prevention and mitigation, societies become less vulnerable. Financial, social and environmental damage and rehabilitation and reconstruction costs are reduced. This approach is already having an important effect in a number of countries of Latin America.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2008
Peter McIntyre [2]
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre [3]
Tags:
Drinking Water [4], Natural Disasters [5], Disaster Management [6], Water Supply [7], Sanitation [8], Global [9]
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