CSO-Public partnership to favor safe water access in rural areas

Climate change is perhaps the largest threat faced by water systems. It manifests as shock (e.g. increased droughts and flooding, more severe storms) and stress events (e.g. reducing groundwater levels, rising oceans), and requests that water systems build resilience to guard themselves against potentially devastating effects. As a country highly vulnerable to climate change, Cambodia is hit by extreme weather events such as floods and droughts, increasingly threatening the quality and continuity of service of water supply systems specifically in rural areas.

Through its Department of Rural Water Supply (DRWS), the Ministry of Rural Development is responsible for providing water supply services in rural communities. The DRWS as the leader of the project and Teuk Saat 1001 is joining together to provide long term access of safe drinking water to at least 2 rural communities and to build capacity of public servants of the safe drinking water sector.

Mutualization of innovative solutions and methodologies to achieve access to safe water especially in drought affected rural communes, where 2 water kiosks will be implemented

1. Safe water provision with the establishment of 2 sustainable communal-owned water kiosks in 2 communes affected by drought in Takeo province;
2. Proposing drought solutions to private and public water suppliers, aiming to strengthen their resilience to drought impact; and
3. Supporting the Rural Water Supply Sanitation and Hygiene objectives with the active collaboration between Teuk Saat 1001 and Department of Rural Water Supply of Ministry of Rural Development to reach Cambodian SDGs targets.

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