IWRA - 1st ISLANDS WATER CONGRESS
Special Session (SS2): Freshwater and Islands: A SIDS perspective
Author(s): Assela Pathirana
Assela Pathirana, IHE Delft, Netherlands
Oral: PDFAbstractCurrent Situation
Drivers:
- 1. Crisis of rainwater – Dry season ‘emergency’ water supplies
- 2. Pollution of groundwater
- 3. Water and Sewerage act: Safe water as a human right: > Piped water supply
Systems:
1. Some islands with [stop-gap?] large-scale rainwater harvesting systems
2. A hybrid design [called IWRM] of desalinated and centrally harvested rainwater > piped water supply