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3. Needs:
a. Reconstruction Needs
Reconstruction needs were derived from the information provided by PWA, MWA
and rural provincial water supply providers (MNRE), as well as information on
damages. These reconstruction needs are a combination of needs to reach the
pre-disaster status quo as well as future needs to improve disaster resilience in
the sector.
Assumption: 70 percent of the costs for repairing damages do not include a
resilience component (for example replacing a damaged electrical system)
b. Recovery Needs
Recovery needs were deducted from the losses information provided by
government counterparts (e.g. increased treatment of water with chemicals,
cleaning of wells, and protection of facilities). However, savings in operating
costs were not included. Also, losses from lower revenues were not included in
recovery needs.
c. Resilience Component
As mentioned under point 3a, reconstruction needs for infrastructure as received
by the government include components of resilience, such as relocating facilities
to less riskier areas, building a flood barrier, or exchanging vertical turbine pumps
with submersible pumps.
Further action aimed at increasing resilience includes the elaboration of local
disaster resilience plans that revise the entire system and outline ways to improve
the resilience.
Assumption: 30 percent of the costs of repairing infrastructure will be devoted to
Building Back Better (e.g. raising the replaced electrical system above ground).
Assumption: A Disaster Resiliency plan at the provincial level requires capacity
building activities. It was assumed that THB 15,000,000 per province is needed
to produce these plans, get experts and train people. This amount was split 70:30
between the Water Supply and the Sanitation sub-sectors, refl ecting the general
break-down between damage and losses among the two sectors.
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