Briefing note: disaster risk reduction in WASH
This document presents some of the approaches, findings and key messages of the 31st AGUASAN Workshop which addressed ways on how best to implement disaster risk reduction (DRR) principles in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector.
Inadequate WASH services can indeed cause disasters, while disasters can further degrade WASH services, both resulting in increased risk. It is therefore necessary to consider disaster risk when developing WASH services, whether in emergency response, early recovery or in the development phase. This is all about increasing resilience of WASH services to natural disasters by knowing the risks and managing them to the extent possible, through preventive and preparedness measures.