Climate Resilient Sanitation

Resilience of sanitation infrastructure under extreme weather conditions

Emergency situations caused by hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, landslides, fires, and droughts all play a role in increasing water and sanitation-related disease. When sewers and onsite sanitation systems overflow — and they overflow frequently for a number of reasons, from clogs to broken pipes to flooding and extreme weather — they release a higher amount of more active, harmful pathogens into the environment. We work to understand how these pathogens flow through the environment, as well as how sanitation infrastructure can be made more resilient to extreme weather and climate change.

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