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Water safety plans. Fundamentals and prospects for implementing them in Colombia

Andrea Pérez Vidal, Patricia Torres Lozada, Camilo Hernán Cruz Vélez

Abstract

Drinking-water must be free of pathogens, chemicals, impurities and any other pollutant causing human health problems. Latin- America and the Caribbean region present water-quality problems due to deficiencies in operating and maintenance and service continuity, the incorrect operation of water treatment plants and distribution networks and unstable household connection. Global trends in the drinking-water sector are directed towards methodological developments for assessing and managing risk in water- supply systems as a way of protecting public health. Implementing water safety plans (WSP) is a practice which is orientated twards ensuring drinking-water quality; its structure is based on multiple-barrier principles, hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) and systematic management approaches, such as ISO 9001:2000. International experience has shown the be- nefits of implementing WSP as a strategy for ensuring drinking-water quality and protecting public health. Current drinking-water regulations in Colombia require implementing risk mapping and evaluating a quality-index which will enable WSP to have good prospects for their short-term implementation.

Keywords

drinking water; drinking water supply system; hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP); water quality; water safety plan (WSP)

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ISSN: 0120-5609 (print)
ISSN: 2248-8723 (online)

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	IBN Publindex Publindex is a Colombian bibliographic index for classifying, updating, rating and certifying scientific and technological publications. It is recognised by COLCIENCIAS and ICFES in Colombia.
	Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ increases the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, aims to be comprehensive and cover all that journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. It's a one stop shop for users of OA Journals.
	SciELO Colombia SciELO Colombia is a virtual library for Latin-America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, which was created by FAPESP in 1997 in Sao Pablo, Brazil. It is currently being managed in Colombia by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
	e-Revistas This is a web page providing open access to Spanish and Latin-American electronic journals. It was created in Spain.
	Science Citation Index Expanded^TM Thomson Reuters SCI is a prestigious online indexing system which incorporates bibliographic and citation data of scientific publications worldwide.
	Scopus Scopus is a bibliographic database publishing summaries and references concerning articles from scientific journals. It covers around 19,500 titles by more than 5,000 international editors, including coverage of about 16,500 journals.
	Latindex Latindex is the product of cooperation by a network of Latin-American institutions operating in a coordinated way to gather and disseminate bibliographic information about serialised scientific publications produced in the region.
	Redalyc Redalyc stands for the Latin-American, Caribbean, Spanish and Portuguese Scientific journals’ Network (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal) sponsored by the Universidad Autónoma in México.
	Dialnet Dialnet is a webpage for disseminating Spanish-speaking scientific production; it began operating in 2001. It specializes in human and social sciences. Its open access database was created by the Universidad de La Rioja (Spain).
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