Emily Christensen Rand
@washe.bsky.social
Follow for data-based Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). Now @UNICEF Zambia. Was: @UNICEFwater Vanuatu, Water & Sanitation @WorldBank, @GWPublicHealth Lecturer, @Oxfam, @RedCross, @MercyCorps Licensed Engineer MPH MBA (She/Her) PS - Please #WashYourHands
"Half of villages still have no drinking water...At least 4,000 children are set to start school this week in UNICEF-provided tents during the hottest time of the year, in cyclone season."
Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.
Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.
‘Never seems to end’: exhausted quake-hit Vanuatu rebuilds again
True cost and psychological toll of the December quake emerges as the Pacific country grapples with its third major disaster in two years
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January 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"Half of villages still have no drinking water...At least 4,000 children are set to start school this week in UNICEF-provided tents during the hottest time of the year, in cyclone season."
Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.
Thanks @michelleduff.bsky.social at @theguardian.com for writing this.
Need to just take a moment to breathe? Join a free session on breathwork for professional women on January 28! Sign up here: www.linkedin.com/events/72879...
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January 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Need to just take a moment to breathe? Join a free session on breathwork for professional women on January 28! Sign up here: www.linkedin.com/events/72879...
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We’re excited to announce our 2025 Conversation Series!
This series celebrates the voices of women and gender-diverse individuals leading the charge in water research, advocacy, and innovation. #WomenPlusWater
Registration is now open: womenpluswater.org/conversations
This series celebrates the voices of women and gender-diverse individuals leading the charge in water research, advocacy, and innovation. #WomenPlusWater
Registration is now open: womenpluswater.org/conversations
December 20, 2024 at 7:52 PM
We’re excited to announce our 2025 Conversation Series!
This series celebrates the voices of women and gender-diverse individuals leading the charge in water research, advocacy, and innovation. #WomenPlusWater
Registration is now open: womenpluswater.org/conversations
This series celebrates the voices of women and gender-diverse individuals leading the charge in water research, advocacy, and innovation. #WomenPlusWater
Registration is now open: womenpluswater.org/conversations
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💧 Calling all Women+ in Water!
Women Plus Water is excited to host an Expert List designed to amplify the voices of women and gender-diverse experts in water-related fields.
Use the list.
Be on the list.
🔗https://water.usask.ca/women-plus-water/expert-list/index.php
Women Plus Water is excited to host an Expert List designed to amplify the voices of women and gender-diverse experts in water-related fields.
Use the list.
Be on the list.
🔗https://water.usask.ca/women-plus-water/expert-list/index.php
January 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
💧 Calling all Women+ in Water!
Women Plus Water is excited to host an Expert List designed to amplify the voices of women and gender-diverse experts in water-related fields.
Use the list.
Be on the list.
🔗https://water.usask.ca/women-plus-water/expert-list/index.php
Women Plus Water is excited to host an Expert List designed to amplify the voices of women and gender-diverse experts in water-related fields.
Use the list.
Be on the list.
🔗https://water.usask.ca/women-plus-water/expert-list/index.php
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Our first #WomenPlusWater conversation in 2025 is just 10 days away!
Join us and our guests as they discuss the critical role of women and gender-diverse voices in addressing the unique water-climate challenges small island states face.
All are welcome! Register 👉 water.usask.ca/events/2025/...
Join us and our guests as they discuss the critical role of women and gender-diverse voices in addressing the unique water-climate challenges small island states face.
All are welcome! Register 👉 water.usask.ca/events/2025/...
January 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our first #WomenPlusWater conversation in 2025 is just 10 days away!
Join us and our guests as they discuss the critical role of women and gender-diverse voices in addressing the unique water-climate challenges small island states face.
All are welcome! Register 👉 water.usask.ca/events/2025/...
Join us and our guests as they discuss the critical role of women and gender-diverse voices in addressing the unique water-climate challenges small island states face.
All are welcome! Register 👉 water.usask.ca/events/2025/...
So looking forward to WASH DC- WASH DC tonight! Water, Sanitation and Hygiene people in Washington, DC please join us at 1 DuPont Circle now! #OpenDefecationFree
January 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
So looking forward to WASH DC- WASH DC tonight! Water, Sanitation and Hygiene people in Washington, DC please join us at 1 DuPont Circle now! #OpenDefecationFree
Emergency environmental health forum abstracts call is open! Forum will be hybrid with some participants in Bonn 14, 15, 16th May 2025
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January 8, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Emergency environmental health forum abstracts call is open! Forum will be hybrid with some participants in Bonn 14, 15, 16th May 2025
Submit at: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Submit at: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
WASH Professionals working on water, sanitation, hygiene, #WASH, #SDG6, 6.1, 6.2, #Handwashing or #MenstruationMatters, please send me a message and I'll add you to this #StarterPack.
January 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
WASH Professionals working on water, sanitation, hygiene, #WASH, #SDG6, 6.1, 6.2, #Handwashing or #MenstruationMatters, please send me a message and I'll add you to this #StarterPack.
So grateful everyone at the Ministry of Lands in Vanuatu is okay after last month's earthquake. #StructuralEngineers on BlueSky - what are your thoughts on the rebar and concrete blocks shown in these photos? www.facebook.com/share/p/19r9...
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January 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
So grateful everyone at the Ministry of Lands in Vanuatu is okay after last month's earthquake. #StructuralEngineers on BlueSky - what are your thoughts on the rebar and concrete blocks shown in these photos? www.facebook.com/share/p/19r9...
What a wonderful idea! To all my friends who have been aid workers on the frontline during the holidays so many times - Thank you!
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on LinkedIn: Frontline work never stops.
This Christmastime, David Lammy called aid…
Frontline work never stops.
This Christmastime, David Lammy called aid workers to thank them for their efforts to solve the most pressing crises we're…
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December 23, 2024 at 1:35 PM
What a wonderful idea! To all my friends who have been aid workers on the frontline during the holidays so many times - Thank you!
Vanuatu, the most hazard prone country in the world, experienced yet another earthquake last week. Ni-Vanuatu know how to respond during and after an emergency. I understand one of the best ways you can help now is go be a tourist. The vacation venues are ready for you!
news.un.org/en/story/202...
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UN surge teams mobilise as Vanuatu hit by second earthquake
UN agencies are intensifying their response in Vanuatu after a 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed 12 people and injured over 200 earlier this week, with a second 6.1 magnitude tremor on Sunday further ex...
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December 23, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Vanuatu, the most hazard prone country in the world, experienced yet another earthquake last week. Ni-Vanuatu know how to respond during and after an emergency. I understand one of the best ways you can help now is go be a tourist. The vacation venues are ready for you!
news.un.org/en/story/202...
news.un.org/en/story/202...
I've seen many photos of damaged plastic water tanks during Vanuatu's 7.4 earthquake & I took many photos similar to this during cyclones, so engineering friends who wants to design some tank strapping that is really easy to install? #EngineeringChallenge #DesignThinking #HumanCenteredDesign
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Earthquake damage only safe drinking water blo community blo Etas..
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December 20, 2024 at 4:19 PM
I've seen many photos of damaged plastic water tanks during Vanuatu's 7.4 earthquake & I took many photos similar to this during cyclones, so engineering friends who wants to design some tank strapping that is really easy to install? #EngineeringChallenge #DesignThinking #HumanCenteredDesign
Wise community members in Vanuatu notice low river levels & warn others that landslides during the 7.4 earthquake may have blocked the river’s natural flow upstream which could eventually breach, leading to a sudden and catastrophic flash flood.
YUMI TOKTOK STRET | Villagers Concerned Over Dropping River Levels at Mele and Mele Maat | Facebook
Villagers Concerned Over Dropping River Levels at Mele and Mele Maat
Residents of Mele and Mele Maat are growing increasingly anxious as they observe unusual drops in their local river levels...
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December 20, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Wise community members in Vanuatu notice low river levels & warn others that landslides during the 7.4 earthquake may have blocked the river’s natural flow upstream which could eventually breach, leading to a sudden and catastrophic flash flood.
“It’s a rush against time to get water trucks organized for those areas so that we prevent a second disaster, which is a diarrhea outbreak,” Brecht Mommen, a @UNICEF water, sanitation and hygiene specialist based in Vanuatu speaking after the earthquake on the 18th.
apnews.com/article/vanu...
apnews.com/article/vanu...
What to know about Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation struggling to recover from a massive quake
Efforts to recover bodies of people trapped in collapsed buildings continues in the earthquake-hit Pacific nation of Vanuatu.
apnews.com
December 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
“It’s a rush against time to get water trucks organized for those areas so that we prevent a second disaster, which is a diarrhea outbreak,” Brecht Mommen, a @UNICEF water, sanitation and hygiene specialist based in Vanuatu speaking after the earthquake on the 18th.
apnews.com/article/vanu...
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An estimated 40,000 children are in need of humanitarian assistance after a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit Vanuatu yesterday, followed by several major aftershocks.
#Vanuatu
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#Vanuatu
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December 18, 2024 at 5:16 PM
An estimated 40,000 children are in need of humanitarian assistance after a devastating 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit Vanuatu yesterday, followed by several major aftershocks.
#Vanuatu
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
#Vanuatu
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
Thanks to UNELCO/ENGIE usually one can drink water from the tap in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The pump station, chlorination and two tanks are fine, but the earthquake damaged three tanks and many underground pipes. Everyone is being asked to conserve water. www.facebook.com/reel/1353454...
10K views · 291 reactions | 📌UPDEIT: UNELCO - 10:15AM
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Fredric Petit Managing Director UNELCO i konfemem long VBTC NEWS seh oli no sua iet seh wetaem bae Port Vila i risivim bak...
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December 18, 2024 at 5:53 AM
Thanks to UNELCO/ENGIE usually one can drink water from the tap in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The pump station, chlorination and two tanks are fine, but the earthquake damaged three tanks and many underground pipes. Everyone is being asked to conserve water. www.facebook.com/reel/1353454...
The new Vanuatu Ministry of Lands building damaged during yesterday's 7.4 Earthquake. For WASH Friends, all Department of Water Resources friends are accounted for.
December 18, 2024 at 5:26 AM
The new Vanuatu Ministry of Lands building damaged during yesterday's 7.4 Earthquake. For WASH Friends, all Department of Water Resources friends are accounted for.
There is no running water in Port Vila due to Earthquake damage. Vanuatu's capital usually has amazing water that everyone drinks from the tap thanks to @UNELCO @ENGIE. Unfortunately, @unicef.org reporting higher diarrhea already.
📢 Vanuatu quake: Concerns over water supply as search efforts continueUNICEF chief of station Eric Durpaire told 1News some people have begun to get sick from drin...
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December 18, 2024 at 5:17 AM
There is no running water in Port Vila due to Earthquake damage. Vanuatu's capital usually has amazing water that everyone drinks from the tap thanks to @UNELCO @ENGIE. Unfortunately, @unicef.org reporting higher diarrhea already.
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Hi everyone. We just got power and water restored, albeit a bit tenuously.
Here's the National Disaster Management Offfice situation report:
Here's the National Disaster Management Offfice situation report:
December 18, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Hi everyone. We just got power and water restored, albeit a bit tenuously.
Here's the National Disaster Management Offfice situation report:
Here's the National Disaster Management Offfice situation report:
A 7.4 earthquake ended communications, destroyed >4 buildings, & damaged water supply, but I am sure the incredibly resilient people of Vanuatu are doing all they can to help others help.unicef.org, www.facebook.com/share/p/18GL..., www.facebook.com/share/p/1EEY..., www.facebook.com/share/p/1DuH...
December 17, 2024 at 6:57 AM
A 7.4 earthquake ended communications, destroyed >4 buildings, & damaged water supply, but I am sure the incredibly resilient people of Vanuatu are doing all they can to help others help.unicef.org, www.facebook.com/share/p/18GL..., www.facebook.com/share/p/1EEY..., www.facebook.com/share/p/1DuH...
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In Malawi, where public high school isn’t free, girls are often the first to drop out, cutting short their dreams and potential. But with support from UNICEF and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, the K.I.N.D. (Kids in Need of Desks) Fund is changing that.
Here, one student shares her #KINDFund story:
Here, one student shares her #KINDFund story:
The K.I.N.D. Fund Opens Doors to Education in Malawi
The K.I.N.D. (Kids in Need of Desks) Fund provides desks for schools and high school scholarships for girls in Malawi. [video]
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December 7, 2024 at 5:11 PM
In Malawi, where public high school isn’t free, girls are often the first to drop out, cutting short their dreams and potential. But with support from UNICEF and MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, the K.I.N.D. (Kids in Need of Desks) Fund is changing that.
Here, one student shares her #KINDFund story:
Here, one student shares her #KINDFund story:
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Ralph Regenvanu, Special Envoy for Climate Change and
Environment for #Vanuatu: "I choose my words carefully when I say that this may well be the most consequential case in the history of humanity. Let us not allow future generations to look back and wonder why the cause of their doom was condoned."
Environment for #Vanuatu: "I choose my words carefully when I say that this may well be the most consequential case in the history of humanity. Let us not allow future generations to look back and wonder why the cause of their doom was condoned."
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 AM
Ralph Regenvanu, Special Envoy for Climate Change and
Environment for #Vanuatu: "I choose my words carefully when I say that this may well be the most consequential case in the history of humanity. Let us not allow future generations to look back and wonder why the cause of their doom was condoned."
Environment for #Vanuatu: "I choose my words carefully when I say that this may well be the most consequential case in the history of humanity. Let us not allow future generations to look back and wonder why the cause of their doom was condoned."
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🎓 PhD Opportunity with @janewilbur.bsky.social
Bridging the Menstrual Health Gap for Individuals with Learning Disabilities
Develop & validate inclusive metrics for assessing menstrual health experiences
📅 Apply by 23:59 (GMT), Wed, 22 January 2025
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Bridging the Menstrual Health Gap for Individuals with Learning Disabilities
Develop & validate inclusive metrics for assessing menstrual health experiences
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November 21, 2024 at 1:13 PM
🎓 PhD Opportunity with @janewilbur.bsky.social
Bridging the Menstrual Health Gap for Individuals with Learning Disabilities
Develop & validate inclusive metrics for assessing menstrual health experiences
📅 Apply by 23:59 (GMT), Wed, 22 January 2025
🔗 More info and how to apply: bit.ly/3OkeKIH
Bridging the Menstrual Health Gap for Individuals with Learning Disabilities
Develop & validate inclusive metrics for assessing menstrual health experiences
📅 Apply by 23:59 (GMT), Wed, 22 January 2025
🔗 More info and how to apply: bit.ly/3OkeKIH
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The EPA is limiting "forever chemicals" in water? Finally! PFAS don't even taste good
November 26, 2024 at 3:59 PM
The EPA is limiting "forever chemicals" in water? Finally! PFAS don't even taste good
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We also find that 68% of voters support having a publicly owned utility as their utility provider, including 71% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 67% of Republicans. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2023/10...
November 19, 2024 at 7:27 PM
We also find that 68% of voters support having a publicly owned utility as their utility provider, including 71% of Democrats, 66% of Independents, and 67% of Republicans. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2023/10...