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An immediate need and vital resource, potable water becomes critical in the aftermath of a disaster; affected communities cannot rec
The response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 highlighted the use of rented portable toilets in emergency context.
In most of the emergency project, we just provided facilities to help people in need to have some living environment.
Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
Point-of-use (POU) water treatment with sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) has been proven to reduce diarrheal disease in de
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
Following the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the vital domestic fresh-water wells in the coastal zone were either scoured out of
In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m