water treatment

Preventing Infection After a Disaster

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Making it through a disaster can be just the beginning.  Cut off from power, water, and medical resources, your life can still be in danger for some time.  During this period the risk of contracting an infection increase, as do the potential complications of an infection.  Without access to medicine, and perhaps with the need … Read more

Disaster Water Treatment

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If you are a survivor of a natural disaster one of your first concerns will be clean drinking water.  Attempting to drink water that has not been treated could lead to serious illnesses.  Some of these illnesses are life-threatening even in good conditions, but when you are under stresses common to post-disaster scenarios such as malnourishment, … Read more