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 rehabilitation phase. When 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.