WESTERN BUREAU:
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has selected Jamaica, from the countries of The Americas, as the pilot project for a water safety plan.
The project will be conducted at the Spanish Town Water Treatment System, which is supplied by the Rio Cobre and managed by the National Water Commission.
According to Ana Treasure, environmental health adviser at the Pan American Health Organisation, Jamaica will serve as a model for other nations in The Americas.
"The WHO has developed a tool called the water safety plan, which is an instrument to evaluate the quality of the system, from the source to the tap," she explained. "The water safety plan also looks on the epidemiology of the area, as well as the health situation in the communities supplied by the system, to relate to problems in their water supply and to see if there is a relationship between gastro-enteritis and a poor water system."
Miss Treasure was speaking on Day two of the Jamaica Association of Public Health Inspectors 60th anniversary conference in Montego Bay, St. James.
