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WEDC Technical Brief No. 38: Emergency sanitation for refugees

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posted on 2025-02-06, 11:04 authored by Bod 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.

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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

Pages

21 - 24

Publisher

Practical Action Publishing

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Rights holder

© Practical Action Publishing

Publisher statement

All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of Practical Action Publishing.

ISBN

9781853394508

eISSN

9781780445816

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Rod Shaw

Depositor

Mr Matthieu Leger, impersonating Mr Bob Reed. Deposit date: 5 February 2025

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