Source(s): Climate Adaptation Platform (CAP)Extreme weather events linked to climate change can damage toilets, water supplies, waste systems, and treatment facilities, especially in developing countries and marginalised groups identified as more vulnerable to climate change impacts. The report highlights how climate change affects sanitation in rural areas of Indonesia, Chad, and Solomon Island, South Asia, and Africa. It gathered the experiences of local people involved in sanitation programmes as case studies and provides practical guidance for climate adaptation strategies for long term coping with climate change. Ruhil Iyer, a co-author of the report, says climate change deepens existing inequities and barriers to sanitation and access and use. Aside from the short-term climate change impacts from frequent heavy rains that can flood septic tanks and dry spells, causing water shortages for flushing and washing hands, there are also long-term climate change impacts from sea-level rise and coastal erosions that funders and the sanitation sector need to prepare for.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 04, 2021 13:27 UTC