Dr. Priscilla Rupali, in this presentation, shared insights on risk communications that emerged from the COVID-19 pandemic and how it has impacted the behaviors and willingness to follow public health and social measures.

Paul White and Paul Webber are directors of Wedgewood White Limited, a New Zealand based consultancy specializing in financial, economic and commercial analysis of infrastructure businesses and projects.

Both are qualified in engineering and finance, and collectively have more than 50 years of experience globally across water, wastewater, electricity, and gas sectors.

They work with engineers, senior executives, governments, financial institutions, and regulators to deliver expert analyses of complex infrastructure problems.

Clarissa Laulala discussed key takeaways from the development and implementation of drinking WSPs for over 54 villages under Samoa's Independent Water Schemes Association. She particularly highlighted challenges and lessons learned, including maintaining ongoing community engagement, lack of resources due to the number of schemes and their small scale, ongoing capacity building requirements for water committees responsible for operations and maintenance, and record-keeping.

Mosese Nariva and Daiana Legalega shared Water Authority Fiji's six-year journey to embed 55 drinking WSPs in Fiji, and their current task of ensuring the documents are kept relevant, up-to-date, and effective. They emphasized the importance of examining the unique risk for each element of the drinking water supply, as they can change according to catchment surroundings, treatment systems, storage, and distribution.