INTRODUCTION
Ebonyi 2012’s floods began on 29th of July following of heavy monsoon rains throughout the state
and affected the districts in or around Ebonyi and Akpuoha rivers and its tributary systems consequently
around 10 million people in 25 l districts were directly affected
throughout the state and the flash flood caused the destruction of every
livelihood sources and death toll
reached to 100.
Nearly
75% of the worldwide communicable diseases are water borne . The removals of
diseases causing organisms from
drinking water are absolutely necessary to healthy life. The quality of water supplied
to community was often poor alive to
leaky network during the intermittent flow system in Ebonyi, as a result
contaminants from the open
sewage drawn in rural
areas enter into water supply systems . However, ion urban water
rich areas people riling on ground water sources usually
contaminated by pour flush pit latrines currently up to
l 65%
of Ebonyi’s population has accessed to dusting water and around 70% of
Ebonyi drinking water sources are microbiologically usage.
As a result of the aforementioned
Ebonyi is very prone to natural calamities.
Moreover, drinking water and
environmental sanitation (WASH)
infrastrure in the affected areas are exceedingly poor and it already
failed to quality access sustainability of services. The recent diversity impact in Ebonyi further scaled down the
availability of clean water but as a results of the flash flood wash services were further destroyed and
their rehabilitations are big
challenges to Ngos and Ebonyi
State government
Flood
as intral cross cultural study
disrupt economics, play havoc
with public services and often create
the need for assistance from abroad economic losses especially in agriculture, may be crippling for years .
The
severity of these floods is often exacerbated when natural causes are
compounded by deforestation, faculty drain
construction and other human
alteration of the environment
flash floods may result from
these and other phenomena such as
hurricane sea surges and
earthquake – related isumamis
When
flash floods do occur, the toll on
human life can be heavy. Because
of this characteristics of flood in Ebonyi, however, confusion and inefficiency have arisen in Relief
management accustomed to thinking of
disasters as acute phenomena with a
sudden rise in deaths and injuries the
international community often responds with costly medical equipment teams of specialists, emergency ,
medicine and mobile hospitals, yet
even superficial survey may show that
there is no dry ground on which to erect the hospitals and there are no
acute trauma cases that cannot
be handled by local personnel.
1. The impact phase, when the disaster
strikes
2. The
emergency phase when life saving measure
are taken . this phase ahs been subdivided into
a.
The isolation period when contact with the
outside world have been broken and the community must rely on its
own resources
b. The convergence
period: when there is an outburst
of assistance from outside assistance that
is often unsolicited and frequent
useless, however well intentioned.
c.
the rehabililation phase. Whenb essential service are provided
on a temporary basis . hence here emphasis is an environmental measures, sanitation provision
of emergency shelter to normally.
In
natural disasters of sudden onset these
phase are clearly marked in slow flood now ever the boundaries are blurred. It may take mouths for the disaster to be recognized as such and for authorities to realize that an emergence exists . the isolation period many last for months and rehabilitation and
reconstruction may over lap with
the next flood
Dramatic well –defined
diseases outbreaks are generally not found in the immediate aftermath of a flood. Instead a slower, wide spread deterioration of general health