Krízový manažment / Crisis Management

Krízový Manažment 2018, 17(1):11-21 | DOI: 10.26552/krm.C.2018.1.11-21

CITLIVOSŤ OBYVATEĽSTVA ALŽÍRSKEJ ĽUDOVO-DEMOKRATICKEJ REPUBLIKY Z HĽADISKA HYGIENY A PRÍSTUPU K PITNEJ VODE A SANITAČNÝM TECHNOLÓGIÁM

Habiba KHALDI¹, Roman TANDLICH², Nosiphiwe P. NGQWALA¹, C. Sunitha SRINIVAS¹

¹ Environmental Health and Biotechnology Research Group, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Rhodes University Biotechnology Innovation Centre, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa

² Head of Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy and Rhodes University Biotechnology Innovation Centre, Rhodes University, P.O. Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa

Data on the Algerian population's access to improved sources of drinking water and to improved sanitation facilities and social/economic vulnerability of the population were extracted from the World Bank databases and Index Mundi. The WASH vulnerability criterion (WVC) of Algeria was calculated using this data, enabling the calculation of the social and economic vulnerability criteria for the population. The WVC values ranged from 0.062 to 0.117, with values that were higher in rural areas of the country. The Pearson correlation coefficients were equal to 0.4866 for the correlation between WVC and social vulnerability, and to -0.5288 for the correlation between WVC and economic vulnerability. Both correlations were not statistically significant, at 5 % level of significance (p-values = 0.1841 and 0.1420, respectively). The WASH vulnerability of the Algerian population is therefore not strongly dependent on its social or economic vulnerability. Recovery of water provision/production costs from consumers must be improved to increase the financial sustainability of the country's water management organisations and to facilitate upkeep of its water/sanitation infrastructures. Capacity to implement the necessary project and to effectively manage the expenditure of the funds allocated has to be improved. Installation of decentralised wastewater treatment solutions, with a focus on algal biotechnology, should be encouraged as a possible solution to the wastewater treatment challenges faced by Algeria. Provision of sanitation in rural areas must be given priority status in government spending and involvement of multiple stakeholders in water and sanitation management operations must be strengthened through existing disaster management approaches.

Kľúčové slová: economic vulnerability, WASH vulnerability, water and sanitation, Algeria

Uverejnené: March 30, 2018  Zobraziť citáciu