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Water Supply and Sanitation

Activities

WHO/CEHA National Seminar on Strategies for Protecting the Quality of    Intermittent Water Supplies: Stronger Surveillance, Sound Operations and Household systems

WHO assisted in the preparation and coordination of a WHO/CEHA National Seminar on Strategies
for Protecting the Quality of
Intermittent Water Supplies.
This seminar was held at the
Marriott Hotel in Beirut from
19-21 February 2003, under
 the patronage of the Minister of Health. The Seminar was co-sponsored by the Ministry of Energy and Water.

Project on Drinking Water Quality Control in Tripoli

Lebanon is experiencing a variety of problems related to fresh water; including deteriorating services and networks and mismanagement
 and uncontrolled exploitation of ground water resources. The
main objective of this project is to strengthen the Drinking Water
 Quality monitoring system in Tripoli through the establishment
of a regional water quality control Laboratory in Tripoli and to increase the Public Awareness on the safe use of potable water.

WHO has been waiting for the local Government/officials to inform about the local as well as the logistics issues in order to initiate the planned activities of this project.

Project on Healthy school environments for children in Beirut Suburbs/Project on water quality surveillance in schools

WHO assisted the Ministry of Public health in the preparation of the project proposal on Healthy Schools Environments in Beirut suburbs area.

The Ministry of Public Health and the World Health Organization conducted jointly this  project
in Beirut southern and
 northern suburbs schools, including both private and public ones. In this healthy school environment project,
two environmental health hazards that were tackled as priorities issues are: The unsafe water supply and the lack of hygiene and sanitation.

The objectives of this project are:

-         To assess the health school environment

-         To enhance the environmental health services
(water supply and sanitation) within schools to create healthy environments for children

-         To increase the number
of children who practice
healthy and hygienic
behaviours.
 

-         To generate a prototype tool for health school environment assessment.