We may take our access to clean water for granted but recent events in Sweden and Europe have shown that a loss of water supply due to contamination does occur and can have large negative effects on society both financially and health wise. These events may become more frequent as the climate changes. This study investigates different aspects of crisis management for drinking water supply in municipalities in Sweden. The data was collected in a questionnaire sent out to the municipalities as a web-survey. The questionnaire included questions about the municipality’s ability to handle a failure in the main water supply and if a crisis in the drinking water supply was included in their risk and vulnerability analysis (RSA). The overall response rate was 15 %. The majority of the municipalities answered that drinking water supply was included in their RSA. Most of the municipalities lacked the ability to connect to a reserve water source, and the majority of those who were able, could not do so within 24 hours. A municipality’s ability to connect to a reserve water source did not vary with population between small (<20 000) and semi large (>20 000<100 000). The study indicates that there are improvments regarding crisis preparedness in the RSA and the ability to connect to a reserve water source compared to older studies however it also indicates that some municipalities are still not well prepared in case their primary water source of drinking water can not be used.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-175197 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Österlund, Edvin |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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