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After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
The bacteriological quality of drinking-water supply of five major urban centres affected by the October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan
Safe excreta disposal is a top priority in an emergency, but one that takes time and extensive resources to implement.
The supply of adequate amounts of safe water for drinking and hygiene during natural disasters or armed conflict can be compromised
Tropical Storm Jeanne struck Haiti in September 2004, causing widespread flooding which contaminated water sources, displaced thousa
The December 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, Indonesia, destroyed drinking water infrastructure, placing over 500,000 displaced persons at
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.
Diarrhoea is one of the five major causes of death in an emergency setting and one of the three main causes of death in children (Cu
Malaria control among nomadic populations has, in the past, posed serious logistic difficulties.