Author: Pan American Health Organization, WHO
Year of publication: 1998
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Vulnerability assessment
Details: Guidelines meant to be consulted by engineers and technical personnel in water service companies to project the performance of drinking water and sewerage systems in case of natural disasters
Format of assessment: Guideline
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Private individuals and firms
Details: Engineers and technical personnel in water service companies
Institutional scale of use: Local/community
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Local decision makers and water service companies
Output: Report
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Latin America
Potential geographic coverage: Pan-American region
Sectors covered: Water sector
Method used: Index development
Description of methodology: Mapping water services company's technical vulnerabilities to natural hazards and developing administrative and technical mitigation measures. Using a matrix allows easy visualization of the elements involved in vulnerability analysis. Four matrices are presented, addressing operative aspects, aspects of administration and response capacity, physical aspects and impact on the service, mitigation and emergency measures
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Hazard
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Cyclone (including tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon), Drought, Earthquake, Flood, Landslide, Volcanic eruption
Details: Technical capacities of water service companies
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Economic
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No
Details: Only EWE
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Climate funds
Applied by whom: Not specified
Open access: Yes