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Emily Christensen Rand

@washe.bsky.social
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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

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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"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.
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‘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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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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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Women Plus Water @womenpluswater.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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
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Women Plus Water @womenpluswater.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
💧 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
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Women Plus Water @womenpluswater.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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/...
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
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
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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...
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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.
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
What a wonderful idea! To all my friends who have been aid workers on the frontline during the holidays so many times - Thank you!
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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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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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.
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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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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
“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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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.
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Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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10K views · 291 reactions | 📌UPDEIT: UNELCO - 10:15AM Fredric Petit Managing Director UNELCO i konfemem long VBTC NEWS seh oli no sua iet seh wetaem bae Port Vila i risivim bak... | By VBTC News | Fa...
📌UPDEIT: UNELCO - 10:15AM 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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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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.
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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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Dan McGarry @danmcgarry.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Hi everyone. We just got power and water restored, albeit a bit tenuously. Here's the National Disaster Management Offfice situation report:
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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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UNICEF USA @unicefusa.org · 07/12/2024
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:
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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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Robert Dreibelbis @rdreibe.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
🎓 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
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2025-26 Project (Wilbur & Polack & Greenland) - MRC London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership Studentships
Bridging the Menstrual Health Gap: Developing and Validating Tools to Assess Menstrual Health in Individuals...
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 26/11/2024
The EPA is limiting "forever chemicals" in water? Finally! PFAS don't even taste good
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Catherine Fraser @cathfraser.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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...
Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voters Strongly Support Having a Publicly Owned Utility as Their Utility Provider.
Description: Publicly owned utility companies allow consumers to elect local utility board representatives, who oversee the utility provider by setting policies that affect energy rates, services, and the energy sources that provide electricity to an area. Would you support or oppose having a publicly owned utility as your local utility provider?
All likely voters — Support: 68%, Oppose: 18%
Democrat — Support: 71%, Oppose: 16%
Independent / Third party — Support: 66%, Oppose: 18%
Republican — Support: 67%, Oppose: 19%

October 20–21, 2023 survey of 1,222 likely voters.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/11/2024
Thirty-five million Africans driven from homes by war and climate disasters – report
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Thirty-five million Africans driven from homes by war and climate disasters – report
Data shows a threefold increase in internal displacement across the African continent since 2009, with flooding and drought posing a growing threat Wars and climate disasters have driven a threefold increase in the number of internally displaced people…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/11/2024
Eight times more children will face extreme heatwaves by 2050s, Unicef says
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Eight times more children will face extreme heatwaves by 2050s, Unicef says
Without action on climate crisis, far greater numbers will also experience floods, wildfires and droughts, according to report Eight times as many children around the world will be exposed to extreme heatwaves in the 2050s, and three times as many will…
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Happy #WorldToiletDay! Are you trying to improve rural sanitation coverage in a challenging context, such as those shown in this powerful image? If yes, read the great guidance collected by Jamie Myers and Mimi Coultas from the Institute of Development Studies at: lnkd.in/dBrJPaaR
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UNICEF Press Office @unicefmedia.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Get more of the latest news on issues affecting children all over the globe, and UNICEF’s work for children, through this live and growing starter pack of UNICEF offices and staff around the world #StarterPack go.bsky.app/LwcZZvY
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WaSHlink @washlink.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
" that includes liquid surface water like lakes and rivers, plus water in aquifers underground " #groundwater #hydrogeology #WaterSecurity #WaSH
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Have you checked out UNICEF's new 2024- 2030 Acceleration Framework for #WASHinSchools? The country-level monitoring indicator checklist is my favorite part! How is your country doing on these indicators? clearinghouse.unicef.org/sites/ch/fil...
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Emily Christensen Rand @washe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The malnutrition & lack of clean water because of limited safe management & no electricity to pump groundwater is heartbreaking. Thank you so much for writing about Zambia's drought @washingtonpost.com. (As I write this the power flickered off. I am grateful for #SolarPower & wish all had it.)
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Alida Cantor @alidacantor.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
New Open Access article! "The water–climate nexus: Intersections across sectors". We look at intersections between water and climate across four sectors: environment; drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene; food and agriculture; and energy. wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The water–climate nexus: Intersections across sectors
Water is present in various forms (e.g., ice, surface water, and ground water) across landscapes and is critical to various sectors (e.g., environment; drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene; food a....
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