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When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
Inadequate sanitation, inadequate water supplies and poor hygiene are critical determinants for survival of victims of natural disas
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of
Tropical Storm Jeanne struck Haiti in September 2004, causing widespread flooding which contaminated water sources, displaced thousa
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan
When the Asian tsunami struck the Andaman Islands, nearly 7,000 people were relocated in six camps.
Communicable diseases are of particular concern in conflict and disaster-affected populations that reside in camp settings.
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