This email provides a weekly summary of collected resources that are relevant to BHC's activities. The full content can be found at the individual links below or upon request. If there are resources you would like to share with the BHC team, please send them to Lauren Azmon at lauren_azmon@jsi.com.
New Resource Bin Content
Last week was World Water Day. To commemorate the day, the Building Healthy Cities team released the last video in our series on wastewater management. This video was focused on Makassar, Indonesia. The earlier videos in the series focus on Da Nang, Vietnam and Indore, India. In this resource bin, we share a new UN publication released on World Water Day, an overarching report on the urgency of wastewater management, and information on the wastewater situation in the cities where we work in this area.
Wastewater Management in Makassar, Indonesia
Healthy urban planning requires safe and reliable wastewater management. In Makassar, Indonesia, the Building Healthy Cities (BHC) project, through the International Organization for Migration, is tracking progress on this issue.
Title: Summary Progress Update 2021: SDG 6 — water and sanitation for all Source: UN Water Publication Date: March 2021 Summary and content relevant to BHC:
The monitoring of progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 is a means to successfully achieving all eight SDG 6 targets. Credible and timely water and sanitation data provide numerous social, economic, and environmental benefits in both public and private sectors, such as stronger political accountability and commitment, as well as public and private investments. It also enables evidence-based policy-making, regulations, planning and investments at all levels, to ensure the most effective deployment of resources. The main beneficiaries of better data are countries. There is a summary report and a data visualization tool to show progress towards the goal.
Title: Overcoming the Challenges of Water, Waste and Climate Change in Asian Cities Source: Environmental Management Authors: Rahmasary, A.N., Robert, S., Chang, IS. et al Publication Date: 22 February 2019 Summary and content relevant to BHC:
Unprecedented challenges in urban management of water, waste and climate change—amplified by urbanization and economic growth—are growing in Asia. In this circumstance, cities need to be aware of threats and opportunities to improve their capacity in addressing these challenges. This paper identifies priorities, barriers and enablers of these capacities. Through the City Blueprint® Approach—an integrated baseline assessment of the urban water cycle—11 Asian cities are assessed.
Title: Vietnam’s Prime Minister Issues Clean Water Directive Source: Fluence News Team Publication Date: 31 October 2020 Summary and content relevant to BHC:
Vietnam faces mounting pressure on freshwater resources from drought, saline intrusion, and large, upstream hydroelectric projects. Cancer deaths are being associated with water contamination, and Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has responded with a directive to strengthen management of clean water production and trade and secure safe and reliable fresh water.
Title: Effect of Nallahs on Groundwater in Indore City Source: International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology Authors: Niharika Shivhare*, Shifa Khan, Naman Patel, Akshay Joshi, Babita Dutt Publication Date: 20 May 2017 Summary and content relevant to BHC:
To check the level of contamination in Indore city by the seepage of the existing nallahs, a monitoring of ground water quality was carried out for one month January 2017 to February 2017 from eighteen groundwater sources in Indore city. Analysis was carried out for assessment of 21 parameters including mineral, demand, nutrient, bacteriological and metal analysis. The analysis data reveals that the quality of groundwater in Indore city has deteriorated to a large extent making it unfit for drinking and irrigation purpose. The chemical composition of groundwater from basaltic aquifer has severely altered due to the percolation of industrial effluents in the past decades and sewage from existing nallahs into the groundwater.
BHC is a five-year cooperative agreement funded by the United States Agency for International Development under Agreement No. AID-OAA-A-17-00028, beginning September 30, 2017. BHC is implemented by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) with partners International Organization for Migration, Thrive Networks Global, and Urban Institute, and with support from Engaging Inquiry, LLC.
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