Publisher: UNHCR
Year: 2015
Description:
Where required, UNHCR and WASH actors should prepare a WASH related environmental impact assessment that includes
- An assessment of environmental related risks at each stage of water supply, excreta management, greywater
disposal, solid waste management, and disease vector control. The risks should be ranked according to an assessment of their likely probability and impact.
- A matrix of short, medium and long-term mitigative activities to address the WASH related risks identified as having both “high impact” and “high probability”.
- A matrix of environmental monitoring parameters (along with their means of verification, monitoring frequencies, and target thresholds) to measure WASH related risks identified as having both “high impact” and “high probability”.
- A checklist of emergency corrective actions to be carried out if the environmental monitoring programme identifies parameters that exceed their target thresholds.
- An overview of national environmental legislation related to water supply, excreta management, greywater disposal, solid waste management, and disease vector control; along with how they are being addressed.