Water compliance challenges: how do Canadian small water systems respond?
Water compliance challenges: how do Canadian small water systems respond?
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水合规挑战：加拿大小型水系统如何应对？
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2015
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H. Castleden
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M. Kot;G. Gagnon;H. Castleden
获得可持续的安全饮用水供应的能力对社区健康和福祉至关重要。小型社区饮用水系统最容易受到污染，并且难以获得改善水处理和供水系统所需的资金，并满足日益严格的饮用水质量法规。人们对社区之间的背景和文化差异及其对法规遵从性的影响知之甚少。本研究探讨了加拿大各地的七个小型社区饮用水系统内的个人行为者的经验和影响。定性，在每个社区的水经营者，消费者和决策者进行了面对面的访谈，这些调查结果进行了专题分析。研究结果表明，社区以三种不同的方式处理和应对合规挑战：通过采用监管机构提供或监管机构驱动的解决方案，通过采用现有的改进框架（即区域化），或通过重新发明来解决新问题或关注点。政策制定者希望将小社区与适当的水质目标结合起来，可能会从考虑这些背景和文化差异中受益。
Fundamental to community health and well-being is the capacity to access a sustainable supply of safe drinking water. Small community drinking water systems are the most vulnerable to contamination, and struggle to secure the funds necessary to improve water treatment and delivery systems, and meet increasingly stringent drinking water quality regulations. Little is known of the contextual and cultural differences between communities and the impact this has on regulatory compliance. This study explored the experiences and impact of individual actors within seven small community drinking water systems in locations across Canada. Qualitative, in-person interviews were conducted with water operators, consumers, and decision-makers in each community, and these findings were analysed thematically. Findings from the study show that communities approach and align with compliance challenges in three distinct ways: by adopting regulator-provided or regulator-driven solutions, by adopting an existing improvement framework (i.e. regionalization), or through reinvention to address a new issue or concern. Policy-makers looking to align small communities with appropriate water quality goals may benefit from a consideration of these contextual and cultural differences.