Disaster Preparation: Waste Disposal

During consideration for supplies (water and food) following a natural or man-made disaster always take into consideration the removal, disposal and\or re-cycling of waste products (urine and fecal waste).

Urban settings require a coordinated effort for implementation will all residents of the community.  Enforcement of individual, and community guidelines must be adhered to to eliminate disease and other harmful effects of contaminated waste.

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Water | Sanitation | Hygiene

Technical resources and forum for people bringing safe water, sanitation and hygiene to all.

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AOPA Online: 17-year-old circles the US

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Taylor De Ley of Yorba Linda, Calif., may be only 17, but as he starts his college education this week he has already focused on a professional pilot career and completed a 10,492-nautical-mile solo flight to the four corners of the nation. That’s more than most kids his age. He now has 340 total fl...

HHS awards $137 million to states to boost prevention and public health

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today awarded up to $137 million, partly supported by the Affordable Care Act, to states to strengthen the public health infrastructure and provide jobs in core areas of public health. Awarded in nearly every state, the grants enhance state, tribal, local and territorial efforts to provide tobacco cessation services, strengthen public health laboratory and immunization services, prevent healthcare-associated infections, and provide comprehensive substance abuse prevention and treatment.

Everbridge. Message Mapping: How to Communicate During the Six Stages of a Crisis

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Do You

Know What You Will Say?

What you will say in the critical first minutes after receiving reports of an active shooter on campus?

How about six hours into the incident?

What will you tell people when your county issues a floodwatch?

Or when the power in your building goes out at 10:00 a.m. on a Monday?

A crisis is like a living organism: it grows, it changes, it evolves over time. Each crisis has a beginning, middle, and end. Just as a crisis isn’t static, what we say, who we tell, and how we reach them varies during every stage of the crisis lifecycle.

High-profile communication blunders have proven beyond question that ineffective communication hampers efforts and often contributes to cascading failures, creating a quagmire. When stress levels are high and time is short, crafting the right message is a Herculean feat.

Foreign Policy Magazine. Food Issue

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Welcome to FP's first-ever food issue in which we travel across this hungry planet of ours at a time when skyrocketing prices are dictating politics from the Middle East to Madagascar. The special section, which travels from the yuppies who've appropriated the miracle food of the Incas to a darkened kitchen in Baghdad where women battered by war came together to celebrate life, explores the food wars of the 21st century, debunks the conventional wisdom about hunger and poverty, shows us 10 ways we really are what we eat, and asks leading experts to predict the future of food.