Emergency and Sanitation Publications
Consolidated Information on Environmental Sanitation in Emergencies
As part of the WHO response to the South Asia tsunami disaster, web pages have been established. At present it includes :
- Environmental health in emergencies and disasters : a practical guide
This book deals with emergency response and aims to strengthen the ability of people to withstand the disruption of their accustomed infrastructure and systems for environmental health (e.g. shelter, water supply, sanitation, vector control etc.) and to recover rapidly. The book can be downloaded for the website directly.
- Fact sheets on Environmental Sanitation
These include information on such pertinent subjects as : water treatment, methods of filtration, chlorination, cleaning and disinfection of wells, storage tanks, pipelines and tanker trucks, water quality monitoring, bacteriological and chlorine testing, household water treatment and storage, excreta disposal, hygiene education, etc. The set of 69 fact sheets can be individually downloaded directly from the website.
- WHO Health Action in Crises
The principal objective of the WHO Health Action in Crises department is to reduce avoidable loss of life, burden of disease and disability in crises in indicative list of crisis-prone and crisis-affected countries. Full reports on the situation in South Asia are available through their website.
The Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University in the UK WEDC has produced a series of books which are designed to help those who are involved in planning and implementing emergency programmes. They provide lessons from previous experience for the decisions which have to be made in emergencies. These books may be downloaded and printed freely from:online publications regarding disaster preparedness and mitigation. Titles available from this url include:
- Controlling and Preventing Disease - Erik Rottier and Margaret Ince
- Emergency Publications on CD - Bob Reed (ed.)
- Emergency Sanitation - Peter Harvey, Sohrab Baghri and Bob Reed
- Emergency Vector Control Using Chemicals (2nd ed.)- Christophe Lacarin and Bob Reed
- Emergency Water Sources (3rd ed.) - Sarah House and Bob Reed
- Out in the Cold (3rd ed.) - Mark Buttle and Michael Smith
- Running Water - Rod Shaw (ed.)
- The Worth of Water - John Pickford
WEDC has also recently produced a series of technical notes for emergencies for the World Health Organization (WHO). These are currently available in draft form. The following may be downloaded and printed freely.
- Cleaning and disinfection of wells in emergencies
- Cleaning and disinfection of boreholes in emergencies
- Cleaning and disinfection of water storage tanks and
tankers in emergencies
- Rehabilitating small-scale piped water distribution
systems after an emergency
- Emergency treatment of drinking water at point-of-use
- Rehabilitating water treatment works after an emergency
- Solid waste management in emergencies
- Disposal of dead bodies in emergency conditions
- Minimum water quantity needed for domestic use in emergencies
- Essential hygiene messages in post-disaster emergencies
- How to measure chlorine residual in water
- Planning emergency sanitation
- Delivering safe water by tankers
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