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Strengthening climate resilience through sanitation systems
Sanitation plays a vital role in building climate resilience. To maximise this, all sanitation systems should be resilient themselves. To achieve this, we need to move beyond infrastructure-focused interventions and take a systems- wide perspective along the entire
sanitation service chain. However, to date, climate change impacts on sanitation systems and corresponding solutions have not had
the attention or financing needed.
We need robust sanitation systems, that can quickly return to usual services when climate hazards cause disruptions and failures. Strong
climate-resilient sanitation systems that are well designed, managed and resourced for long-term performance both minimise the risk
of impacts from climate-related events and the vulnerability of communities due to health, environmental and economic disruptions. If we are serious about climate adaptation, we cannot wait to address this critical dimension of climate resilience.
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