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This document outlines the procedure that could be put in place for emergency sanitation immediately after a disaster.
This document suggests ways in which to provide clean water supplies and sanitation facilities in refugee camps, both immediate and long-term.
These guidelines have been designed to help those involved in the assessment of emergency water sources to collect relevant information in a systematic way, to use this information to select a...
This technical brief covers a process of rehabilitating small-scale piped water distribution systems (with pipe diameters up to 150mm) after natural disasters such as earthquakes, flooding,...
This note is about simple treatment of drinking water at point-of-use for people in, or just after an emergency. The options suggested are quick short-term measures to provide a safe survival...
In the 1990s events in Bosnia, the former Soviet Union countries, Afghanistan and Northern Iraq showed that humanitarian disasters are not limited to the South, Africa, or the tropics, but may...
This book has been written to help all those involved in planning and implementing emergency sanitation programmes. Users may include field technicians, engineers and hygiene promoters, as well as...
This technical note outlines some of the key activities in dealing with solid waste in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Solid waste refers here to all non-liquid wastes (e. g. rubbish or...