Drinking Water Management and Governance in Canada: An Innovative Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Framework for a Safe Drinking Water Supply.

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    • Source:
      Publisher: Springer Verlag Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7703893 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1432-1009 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0364152X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Environ Manage Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: New York Ny : Springer Verlag
      Original Publication: New York, Springer-Verlag.
    • Subject Terms:
      Government Regulation*; Drinking Water/*standards ; Water Supply/*standards; Canada ; Disease Outbreaks/prevention & control ; Humans ; Politics ; Water Supply/legislation & jurisprudence ; Waterborne Diseases/prevention & control
    • Abstract:
      Drinking water management in Canada is complex, with a decentralized, three-tiered governance structure responsible for safe drinking water throughout the country. The current approach has been described as fragmented, leading to governance gaps, duplication of efforts, and an absence of accountability and enforcement. Although there have been no major waterborne disease outbreaks in Canada since 2001, a lack of performance improvement, especially in small drinking water systems, is evident. The World Health Organization water safety plan approach for drinking water management represents an alternative preventative management framework to the current conventional, reactive drinking water management strategies. This approach has seen successful implementation throughout the world and has the potential to address many of the issues with drinking water management in Canada. This paper presents a review and strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats analysis of drinking water management and governance in Canada at the federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal levels. Based on this analysis, a modified water safety plan (defined as the plan-do-check-act (PDCA)-WSP framework) is proposed, established from water safety plan recommendations and the principles of PDCA for continuous performance improvement. This proposed framework is designed to strengthen current drinking water management in Canada and is designed to fit within and incorporate the existing governance structure.
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    • Contributed Indexing:
      Keywords: Continuous performance improvement; Drinking water management; Plan-do-check-act; SWOT analysis; Water safety plan
    • Accession Number:
      0 (Drinking Water)
    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20170421 Date Completed: 20171023 Latest Revision: 20181202
    • Publication Date:
      20221213
    • Accession Number:
      10.1007/s00267-017-0873-9
    • Accession Number:
      28424879