Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Emergencies. A Field Manual for Red Cross/Red Crescent personnel and volunteers

This well-illustrated manual can be used for the promotion of household water treatment and the safe storage of drinking water in emergencies. The easy-to-understand chapters on the three household water treatment methods disinfection, sedimentation and filtration (including factsheets which can be used as posters) are followed by instructions of safe storage and handling of drinking water. It also includes information on how to promote such methods.

IFRC (2008): Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage in Emergencies. A Field Manual for Red Cross/Red Crescent personnel and volunteers. Geneva: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies URL [Accessed: 04.05.2011]