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.
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