Goater Sarah, Cook Angus, Hogan Anthony, Mengersen Kerrie, Hieatt Arron, Weinstein Philip
The University of Queensland, Herston, Australia.
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2011 Mar;23(2 Suppl):80S-90. doi: 10.1177/1010539510397038.
Under current climate change projections, the capacity to provide safe drinking water to Australian communities will be challenged. Part of this challenge is the lack of an adaptive governance strategy that transcends jurisdictional boundaries to support integrated policy making, regulation, or infrastructural adaptation. Consequently, some water-related health hazards may not be adequately captured or forecast under existing water resource management policies to ensure safe water supplies. Given the high degree of spatial and temporal variability in climate conditions experienced by Australian communities, new strategies for national health planning and prioritization for safe water supplies are warranted. The challenges facing public health in Australia will be to develop flexible and robust governance strategies that strengthen public health input to existing water policy, regulation, and surveillance infrastructure through proactive risk planning, adopting new technologies, and intersectoral collaborations. The proposed approach could assist policy makers avert or minimize risk to communities arising from changes in climate and water provisions both in Australia and in the wider Asia Pacific region.
根据当前对气候变化的预测，向澳大利亚社区提供安全饮用水的能力将面临挑战。这一挑战的部分原因是缺乏一种适应性治理策略，该策略能够超越管辖边界，以支持综合政策制定、监管或基础设施适应。因此，在现有的水资源管理政策下，一些与水相关的健康危害可能无法得到充分的识别或预测，以确保安全的供水。鉴于澳大利亚社区所经历的气候条件在空间和时间上具有高度的变异性，有必要制定新的国家健康规划战略和安全供水的优先次序。澳大利亚公共卫生面临的挑战将是制定灵活且稳健的治理策略，通过积极的风险规划、采用新技术以及跨部门合作，加强公共卫生对现有水政策、监管和监测基础设施的投入。所提议的方法可以帮助政策制定者避免或最小化澳大利亚及更广泛的亚太地区因气候和供水变化给社区带来的风险。
