Editorial: Ensuring safe drinking water: converting commitment into action and foresight.

This editorial from the Journal of Water & Health emphasizes the importance of ensuring safe drinking water and converting commitment into action. It discusses the history of guidelines for drinking water quality and the shift towards a preventive risk management approach. The document highlights the development and implementation of Water Safety Plans (WSPs) as a means to achieve health-based targets. It includes insights from various countries on the implementation of WSPs, the importance of an enabling environment, continual improvement, risk assessment, and addressing natural hazardous events. The text provides valuable case studies and perspectives from different countries and settings, offering insights into the challenges and successes of implementing WSPs. [Extracted from the article]