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Dear Peter and Cor,

On water safety plans in a rural context, DWSS in Nepal has been working with WHO on the introduction of WSPs since 2006/7. Currently there are WSPs in rural areas, urban schemes and school water supply systems. With Australian Aid, DWSS and WHO have been able to expand the support system in recent years, and have also been able to strengthen the WQ testing component. WSPs are just a part of the overall effort to raise functionality and quality of service delivery. I will have to request Nepal whether they have done an assessment of the current effectiveness of the implementation of WSPs. Anyway, it is a mandatory component of the national regulatory set-up, through water quality standards (2005) and directives to improve service delivery (2012, 2014). WSPs have successfully been implemented in several hundred rural schemes all around Nepal. However sustainability of the effort is not known to me. I will have to check.