Assessing safety of supply and distribution management of drinking water in Torbat Jam using WSP-QA TOOL software

Abstract

Background and purpose: One of the fundamental factors of water quality management plan is being guaranteed the qualitative and quantitative stability of fresh water in water supply systems. Water safety plan is a systematic approach that guarantees the constant supply of drinking water emphasizing the prevention of water pollution from catchment to the consumer. Material and methods: WSP-QA TOOL is employed as an instruction in order to assess the safety circumstance and identify vulnerability of water supply system in Torbat Jam; so that the necessary information aligned with WSP approach was provided based on current evidence of water and waste water company and related organization and interviewing experts and then it was analyzed in Excel. Results: The results of this study showed that by obtaining 159 scores of the total score evaluated, only 36.14% of the accordance between the approach in Torbat Jam city water supply system and the approach proposed by the World Health Organization. Among this, the management procedures with 66.67% and the formation of the WSP team with the 10%, has dedicated the highest and lowest amount of the coincided implementation with the plan, respectively. Conclusion: Because of the inadequacy of the conventional water quality control approach, which instead of preventing contamination only detects it, has the potential to cause various contamination in the water supply system, especially through vulnerable system. Therefore, planning to implement and develop a water safety plan as a basic method for reaching the goal of water health.

Keywords

• drinking water
• water safety plan
• torbat jam
• water quality
• vulnerable points