Drinking water services

This involves mapping at a suitable administrative level of the Sustainable Development Goal JMP service level categories for drinking water services.

Strategic or operational?

Strategic.

Basemap, baseline or situational?

Baseline.

When might it be produced?

Prior to response.

Intended audience

WASH cluster.

Influence on humanitarian decisions

Planning for WASH investments and resource allocations.

Methods

Consider indicators for change/improvement over time. If these indicators exist then consider time series mapping or other visualisations such as graphs.

Data

• Administration boundaries - such as GADM or common operational datasets (CODs) from Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).
• Water sources used by the main household for drinking, cooking, personal hygiene and other domestic uses. This could include open water sources (consider OpenStreetMap) and groundwater and wells.

Resources

• Drinking water services
• WASH Information Toolkit
• WASH Minimum Sphere Standards