strategy
Monitoring water related disease transmission
Synonyms:
Monitoring water-borne diseases Description:
Developing effective systems for monitoring situations likely to result in outbreaks or incidents of water-related disease and for responding to such outbreaks and incidents and the risk of them.
Context:
Article 2(1) of the Draft Protocol on Water and Health (1999) to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (1992), states: "Water-related disease" means any significant adverse effects on human health, such as death, disability, illness or disorders, caused directly or indirectly by the condition, or changes in the quantity or quality, of any waters.
Implementation:
Article 4(2)e of the Draft Protocol on Water and Health (1999) to the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (1992), requires parties to take all appropriate measures for the purpose of ensuring: effective systems for monitoring situations likely to result in outbreaks or incidents of water-related disease and for responding to such outbreaks and incidents and to the risk of them.
Facilitates:
Providing sanitary water supply Facilitated by:
Strengthening water monitoring management at all levelsIntegrating climate change and environmental monitoring programmes Problems:
Water-borne diseasesValues:
Disease Subjects:
Hydrology → WaterMedicine → Pathology
Transportation, Telecommunications → Telecommunications
Research, Standards → Inspection, tests
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
