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Large-scale urban WASH programming requires different approaches to those normally employed in Oxfam emergency response activities.
Safe excreta disposal is a top priority in an emergency, but one that takes time and extensive resources to implement.
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
A number of organizations engaged in tanker trucks to deliver water to populations affected by the 2005 tsunami in Indonesia.
When the Asian tsunami struck the Andaman Islands, nearly 7,000 people were relocated in six camps.