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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
After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, thousands of agencies, organizations, and individual people tried to find ways to help the pe
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
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.