Water Safety Planning for Urban Water Utilities: a practical Guide for adb staff

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Table 2:
Step-by-step Water Safety Plan Implementation Guide Summary for ADB Project Officer 
No.
Illustrative Steps 
and Deliverables
Typical Party with 
Responsibility for 
Activities
(ADB can mean its 
staff, partners, or 
consultants)
Typical Timing 
Relating to ADB 
Project Cycle
Illustrative Notes
(For complete examples, refer to the Water 
Safety Portal. http://www.wsportal.org)
Define project limits and scope
1
Define Project Scope
(Deliver: a statement 
on the boundaries 
between areas 
of project and 
WSP scope and 
responsibility)
ADB, co-financiers, and 
client
Initial 
reconnaissance
Concept paper 
stage
Loan fact-finding
Loan signing and 
effectiveness
Determine the respective physical, operational, and 
institutional limits of the WSP. Options may include 
the following:
(i) minimal: solely restricted to inside the limits and 
scope of the project 
(ii) broad: largely restricted to inside the limits 
and scope, including additional elements that 
consider the development, implementation, 
and monitoring of the WSP, but that impute no 
responsibilities for elements outside those limits 
and scope
(iii) holistic: not restricted to inside the limits and 
scope and impute responsibilities outside those 
limits and scope for some WSP elements
Describe the water supply system 
2
System Description
(Deliver: a summary 
of the water supply 
system) 
ADB and client
Project preparation 
and technical due 
diligence
Develop a TOR for project and appoint project team.
Produce a water supply system description to cover 
the physical infrastructure within the scope of the 
ADB loan project. 
Describe the source water catchment and reservoir or 
aquifer, raw and treated water storage, treatment and 
distribution infrastructure.
Provide supporting information including maps, 
process descriptions, and summaries of historical 
water quality data. 
This information may need to extend beyond the ADB 
project if required to describe the overall process and 
if deemed to have system-wide relevance. 
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