COVID-19 and Water in Asia and the Pacific: Guidance Note was prepared by the Water Sector Group under the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department (SDCC) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). This is part of a series of ADB guidance notes produced in response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

Geoffrey Wilson, senior water resources specialist, SDCC, led the preparation of this guidance note, with valuable technical and survey analysis by Victor Arroyo, team leader; Joanna Burgess, deputy team leader; Christian Yang Villa, project manager, of Isle Utilities Pty Ltd.; Thomas Panella, former chief of the Water Sector Group; and Robert Guild, chief sector officer of SDCC, supervised the preparation of this guidance note.

The team is also grateful for perspectives provided by members of the Water Sector Group, notably Coral Fernandez Illescas, Jelle Beekma, Christian Walder, Jacob Veerman, and Pia Corrina Romero Reyes.

The team also appreciates the support of ADB operations departments, especially the sector division focals for their valuable advice and support throughout the process, including Alan Baird, Alex Conroy, Akira Matsunaga, Eric Quincieu, Hisaka Kimura, Jie Bai, Kiyoshi Nakamitsu, Lu Shen, Momoko Nitta, Pedro De Almeida, Qi Ji, Suzanne Marsh, Vivian Castro-Wooldridge, Yaozhou Zhou, and Xueliang Cai. The team is also grateful to ADB consultant Ricardo De Guzman for his input to the survey preparation.