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Point-of-use water treatment (PoUWT), such as boiling or chlorine disinfection, has 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.
This paper intends to examine the impacts of flood on water supply and sanitation condition along with flood induced health problems
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
The December 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, Indonesia, destroyed drinking water infrastructure, placing over 500,000 displaced persons at
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan
Following the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004, the emergency response that ensued prioritized the health and well