Water safety plans (WSPs) can be used by a community to safeguard its water quality without having to rely solely on external agencies and their use of specialized incubator-based kits and trained personnel. To date, most WSPs have been created for safeguarding large-scale, municipal supplies. Tearfund is currently piloting a process for facilitating beneficiary communities (mainly rural) to create their own WSPs. The process is highly participative, and seeks to empower water accountability groups to effectively self-manage their water system from its source to the point of consumption. The process is also gender sensitive, and explores the various useful roles of men, women and older children in monitoring and preventing contamination of their supply, with outputs which can be tailored for communities which are literate or non-literate.

Bartram, J., Corrales, L., Davison, A., Deere, D., Drury, D., Gordon, B., Howard, G., Rinehold, A. and Stevens, M. (2009) Water Safety Plan Manual: Step-by-Step Risk Management for Drinking-Water Suppliers, World Health Organisation, Geneva.

Davison, A., Howard, G., Stevens, M., Callan, P., Fewtrell, L. Deere, D. and Bartram, J. (2005) Water Safety Plans: Managing Drinking-Water Quality from Catchments to Consumer WHO/SDE/WSH/05.06, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Greaves, F. (2010) Adoption of CLTS: Guidance for Programming of CLTS in Tearfund-supported Projects [online], Tearfund, available from: http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/adoption-clts-guidance-programming-clts-tearfund-supported-projects [accessed 20 May 2011]. http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/adoption-clts-guidance-programming-clts-tearfund-supported-projects

Greaves, F. and Simmons, C. (2011) Water Safety Plans for Communities: Guidance for Adoption of Water Safety Plans at Community Level [online], Tearfund, available from: http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/ [accessed 20 May 2011]. http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/

Tearfund (2010) Internal CIDA HAPS Evaluation Report, March 2010, Juba, Sudan.

Bartram, J., Corrales, L., Davison, A., Deere, D., Drury, D., Gordon, B., Howard, G., Rinehold, A. and Stevens, M. (2009) Water Safety Plan Manual: Step-by-Step Risk Management for Drinking-Water Suppliers, World Health Organisation, Geneva.

Davison, A., Howard, G., Stevens, M., Callan, P., Fewtrell, L. Deere, D. and Bartram, J. (2005) Water Safety Plans: Managing Drinking-Water Quality from Catchments to Consumer WHO/SDE/WSH/05.06, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Greaves, F. (2010) Adoption of CLTS: Guidance for Programming of CLTS in Tearfund-supported Projects [online], Tearfund, available from: http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/adoption-clts-guidance-programming-clts-tearfund-supported-projects [accessed 20 May 2011]. http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/adoption-clts-guidance-programming-clts-tearfund-supported-projects

Greaves, F. and Simmons, C. (2011) Water Safety Plans for Communities: Guidance for Adoption of Water Safety Plans at Community Level [online], Tearfund, available from: http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/ [accessed 20 May 2011]. http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/

Tearfund (2010) Internal CIDA HAPS Evaluation Report, March 2010, Juba, Sudan.

Bartram, J., Corrales, L., Davison, A., Deere, D., Drury, D., Gordon, B., Howard, G., Rinehold, A. and Stevens, M. (2009) Water Safety Plan Manual: Step-by-Step Risk Management for Drinking-Water Suppliers, World Health Organisation, Geneva.

Davison, A., Howard, G., Stevens, M., Callan, P., Fewtrell, L. Deere, D. and Bartram, J. (2005) Water Safety Plans: Managing Drinking-Water Quality from Catchments to Consumer WHO/SDE/WSH/05.06, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Greaves, F. (2010) Adoption of CLTS: Guidance for Programming of CLTS in Tearfund-supported Projects [online], Tearfund, available from: http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/adoption-clts-guidance-programming-clts-tearfund-supported-projects [accessed 20 May 2011]. http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/adoption-clts-guidance-programming-clts-tearfund-supported-projects

Greaves, F. and Simmons, C. (2011) Water Safety Plans for Communities: Guidance for Adoption of Water Safety Plans at Community Level [online], Tearfund, available from: http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/ [accessed 20 May 2011]. http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/

Tearfund (2010) Internal CIDA HAPS Evaluation Report, March 2010, Juba, Sudan.

Bartram, J., Corrales, L., Davison, A., Deere, D., Drury, D., Gordon, B., Howard, G., Rinehold, A. and Stevens, M. (2009) Water Safety Plan Manual: Step-by-Step Risk Management for Drinking-Water Suppliers, World Health Organisation, Geneva.

Davison, A., Howard, G., Stevens, M., Callan, P., Fewtrell, L. Deere, D. and Bartram, J. (2005) Water Safety Plans: Managing Drinking-Water Quality from Catchments to Consumer WHO/SDE/WSH/05.06, World Health Organization, Geneva.

Greaves, F. (2010) Adoption of CLTS: Guidance for Programming of CLTS in Tearfund-supported Projects [online], Tearfund, available from: http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/adoption-clts-guidance-programming-clts-tearfund-supported-projects [accessed 20 May 2011]. http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/adoption-clts-guidance-programming-clts-tearfund-supported-projects

Greaves, F. and Simmons, C. (2011) Water Safety Plans for Communities: Guidance for Adoption of Water Safety Plans at Community Level [online], Tearfund, available from: http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/ [accessed 20 May 2011]. http://tilz.tearfund.org/Topics/Water+and+Sanitation/

Tearfund (2010) Internal CIDA HAPS Evaluation Report, March 2010, Juba, Sudan.