posted on 2025-02-06, 11:04authored byBod Reed, Rod ShawRod Shaw
The immediate provision of clean water supplies and sanitation facilities in refugee camps is essential to the health, well-being and, in come cases, even the survival of the refugees. Sanitation is usually allocated a much lower priority than clean water, but it is just as important in the control of many of the most common diseases found in refugee camps.
Sanitation is the efficient disposal of excreta, urine, refuse and sullage. As indiscriminate defecation is normally the initial health hazard in refugee camps, this Technical Brief outlines ways in which it can be controlled temporarily while long term solutions are devised.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
Published in
Running Water. More Technical Briefs on Health, Water and Sanitation