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Solid waste and faecal sludge management in situations of rapid mass displacement are important to public health an
Appropriate and adequate sanitation solutions are crucial for the protection of human and environmental health in emergencies.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that improving water, sanitation and hygiene could prevent at least 9.1% of the global
When water supplies are compromised during an emergency, responders often recommend household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS
Household water treatment (HWTS) methods, such as boiling or chlorination, have long been recommended in emergencies.
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 supply of adequate amounts of safe water for drinking and hygiene during natural disasters or armed conflict can be compromised
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina