o:5160 Natural hazard risk analysis in the framework of water safety plans en ABSTRACT The available literature on natural hazard risk analysis focused on the implementation of water safety plans (WSPs) is surprisingly quite poor, despite the significant increase in the number and severity of disasters and adverse effects on drinking water supply systems generated by natural hazards. At the same time, WSPs that conveniently account for natural hazards with a comprehensive approach ‘from source to tap’ are still scarce as they typically occur at larger spatial scales and adequate prevention, mitigation and adaptation require efficient inter-institutional collaborations. The aim of this paper is to highlight the main bottlenecks for water utilities to include natural hazards in the development of their WSPs. The research adopted a stakeholders-oriented approach, involving a considerable number of water utilities (168), water sectoral agencies (15) and institutions (68) across the Adriatic-Ionian Region through a stepwise process that generated joint SWOT analysis, the development of a decision support system (DSS) focused on WSPs procedures and tabletop exercises. The final outcomes generated strategic documents (REWAS – Adrion Road map for resilient water supply) that highlighted the necessity for efficient cross-sectoral and inter-institutional cooperation in the development of well-founded and robust WSPs to address natural hazard risk analysis for water supply systems (DWSS). Keywords: civil protection mechanism, EU drinking water directive, multihazard risk assessment, water safety plan, water utilities 1552101 1477-8920 1552099 10.2166/wh.2024.124 2024-08-01T12:08:10.042Z 44 yes 46 Jessica Amadio Water Research Institute – National Research Council of Italy, Montelibretti, Rome, Italy 0000-0003-1035-0592 Stavroula Tsitsifli Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company of Larissa, Larissa, Greece person 0000-0002-0690-5316 Jasmina Lukač Reberski Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Croatian Geological Survey, Zagreb, Croatia person Matjaž Srša Kamnik Municipality, Kamnik, Slovenia person Emanuele Romano Water Research Institute – National Research Council of Italy, Montelibretti (Rome), Italy person 0000-0003-4846-2389 Argiris Papakonstantinou Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company of Larissa, Larissa, Greece person Anastasia Papadopoulou Civil Engineering Department, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece person Darko Kovac Limited liability company Vodovod i Kanalizacija, Nikšić, Nikšic, Montenegro person Andrea Duro Civil Protection Department of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Rome, Italy person Barbara Čenčur Curk Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Department of Geology, Ljubljana, Slovenia person Emanuela Campione Civil Protection Department of the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Rome, Italy person Ivana Boljat Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, Croatian Geological Survey, Zagreb, Croatia person Primoz Banovec Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia person Branislava Matić Educons University, Novi Sad, Serbia person Dejan Dimkić Institut za vodoprivredu "Jaroslav Černi"; Jaroslav Černi Water Institute person 0000-0003-4994-2683 Vasilis Kanakoudis Civil Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece person application/pdf 802440 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:5160 no yes 1 70 92000001 71A04 Journal of Water and Health 22 3 451 466 IWA Publishing, London, United Kingdom 2024 First received 12 May 2023 Accepted in revised form 7 February 2024 Available online 20 February 2024