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Surviving the Aftermath: Water Shortages and Sanitation Crisis Following the Great Hanshin Earthquake

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Early morning in the Nagata district of Kobe City. The fire was not extinguished until everything in the vicinity was consumed.
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People searching for food from overturned trucks. Food shortages were severe in the early days.
A U-shaped road caved in at the Hyogo-ku Okaidori.
Relief supplies arrived at the Nagata Ward Office from various locations.
A housewife doing her laundry at the Tsuga River in Nada Ward, Kobe City, laughed broadly when she said, “I have to do everything I can because the water is out.”
Some people washed pots and pans and shaved their beards with water overflowing from a burst water pipe.
A mother puts a winter coat and gloves on her child on a day when it was nearly zero degrees Celsius.
The faces of people in the evacuation center showed a deep color of fatigue.
In Chuo Ward, Kobe City. The back of a little girl playing in an alley was full of energy and vitality, as if the earthquake had never happened.

  • PHOTO： Naoki Kamidate (1st and 2nd photos), Toshihiro Nakagawa (3rd photo), Shinya Inui (4th to 9th photos), Hiroshi Shibachi (10th photo)

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