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When water supplies are compromised during an emergency, responders often recommend household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS
Médecins Sans Frontières-Operational Centre Amsterdam piloted the distribution of household disinfection kits (HDKs) and health prom
Household water treatment (HWTS) methods, such as boiling or chlorination, have long been recommended in emergencies.
In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Oxfam’s Public Health Promotion team used a voucher programme to provide beneficiarie
The devastating earthquake of 2005 severely damaged over 4000 water and sanitation schemes in northern Pakistan.
Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan