Water and sanitation in emergencies
| The British Red Cross has a mass sanitation unit (MSU), which can provide sanitation facilities and hygiene promotion for up to 20,000 people for a maximum of four months after an emergency.
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| When a major disaster strikes, the four-person team is on-call and ready to respond immediately. The team consists of a sanitation engineer, a public health delegate, team leader and team administrator. | | |  | |
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Since the unit was set up in 2007, the MSU has been deployed to help people affected by severe floods in Pakistan in July 2007, after the earthquake in China in May 2008 and in response to the cholera epidemic in Zimbawe in December 2008.
Read a blog on hygiene promotion in China
More about recovery from the Pakistan earthquake | |
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