Developing and implementing drinking water safety plans (WSP)

There are plans to carry out surveys in some five French Polynesian municipalities. Budget permitting, the initiative could be extended to other municipal areas.
On Wallis & Futuna, the plan is to carry out two WSPs, but treating the two islands separately, so as to reflect their differences in terms of supply systems, stakeholders and management strategies.
- Surveys have recently been conducted on Futuna to schedule structural upgrades to the system in the coming years. The WSP will be developed once the surveys are well underway or, ideally, finalised.
- Although Wallis Island’s supply systems are functional, they are obsolescent and, because there is no recent drinking water master plan, any upgrades could be quite onerous, if undertaken under the WSP. Both the water-supply and WSP surveys will, therefore, be conducted in tandem.