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Keep Up-to-date on Environmental
Health and Disasters with these Publications
In 2003, PAHO’s
disaster program and its Center for Sanitary Engineering and
Environmental Sciences (CEPIS) began publishing a series on
environmental health and disasters to disseminate lessons
learned and new knowledge on risk management, concentrating
on drinking water, sewerage, and solid waste, as these issues
relate to health. The publications also look at protecting
the infrastructure from the effects of disasters and restoring
the level and quality of services as quickly as possible.
The series targets professional and technical personnel who
are involved in policy making and the provision of water and
sanitation services. It is also useful for national and local
emergency management and health protection agencies. To date,
the series includes the following publications (all in Spanish
with the exception of the last one mentioned):
- Management of Solid Waste in Disaster
Situations (see the last issue of this newsletter) complements
guidelines and basic instructions with case studies from
disasters in the Americas.
- Impact of the El Niño on Water
and Sewerage Infrastructure: Experiences from Ecuador 1997-1998”
compiles the experiences of water and sanitation service
providers, the effects this phenomenon had on infrastructure
and the consequences to health.
- Lessons Learned: The Eruption of the
Volcano Reventador (2002) and its Effects on Water and Sewerage
Systems analyzes how the vulnerability of these critical
services can lead to a deterioration of the quality of service
and outlines steps to deal with emergencies.
- Minimizing Earthquake Damage: Guide
for Water Utilities was translated into Spanish to form
part of this series from the English-language publication
by the American Water Works Association. It provides information,
based on real-life scenarios, to assess a system's seismic
vulnerability and find ways to minimize damage.
The Spanish-language
full-text of these publications can be downloaded from the
CEPIS website at www.cepis.org.pe/bvsade/pub/index.html.
For the English-language publication Minimizing Earthquake
Damage, visit www.awwa.org.
For more information or to comment on this series contact
CEPIS at desastre@cepis.ops-oms.org.
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