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Out in the cold: Emergency water supply and sanitation for cold regions - 3rd edition (3rd edn)

Author(s): Buttle, Mark | Smith, Michael

Publisher: WEDC
Place of publication: Loughborough University, UK
Year: 2004

Collection(s): Emergency water and sanitation | WEDC Bookshop

Price: £19.95
ISBN: 9781843800774

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In the 1990s events in Bosnia, the former Soviet Union countries, Afghanistan and Northern Iraq showed that humanitarian disasters are not limited to the South, Africa, or the tropics, but may strike anywhere in the world. Relief workers have had to be ever more adaptable in order to provide life-saving water supplies and sanitation facilities in areas where freezing conditions occur. This second edition of Out in the Cold includes new material gathered from humanitarian workers returning from the Kosovo crisis and has been revised on the basis of comments made about the first edition.

The book has been designed for all humanitarian workers, especially managers, engineers and logisticians working in ex-Soviet states, China, Eastern Europe or any other country in cool temperate or cold regions. It provides specific supplementary information that can be used together with information given in more general emergency manuals, details of which are given inside. Techniques are described simply, although engineering design recommendations are also included.