| Title | Emergency sanitation – technical options : WHO technical note for emergencies No. 14 |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2005 |
| Authors | Reed, B |
| Secondary Title | WHO technical notes for emergencies |
| Volume | 14 |
| Pagination | 4 p.; ill.; 4 fig. |
| Date Published | 2005-01-07 |
| Publisher | World Health Organization (WHO) |
| Place Published | Geneva, Switzerland |
| Keywords | access to sanitation, faeces, open defecation, sanitation, sanitation services |
| Abstract | The immediate provision of clean water supplies and sanitation facilities in refugee camps is essential to the health, well-being and, in some 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 note outlines ways in which it can be controlled temporarily while long-term solutions are devised. (authors abstract) |
| Custom 1 | 274, 201 |
