Abstract

The risk of an outbreak of natural disaster increased in recent years due to climate change, pollution, and imbalance in the environment. As a result, sudden rise of infectious disease and damage to the ecosystem has occurred. The lack of potable water, sanitization and maintenance of hygiene, food and displacement of people led to increase in communicable disease. The catastrophic situation occurs due to natural calamities like flood, earthquake, cyclone, and volcano, which damages the environment, human life, and animals, reducing global economic growth and public health. Various strategies are used to manage the effect of natural disasters. Microbial engineering could be used as a supportive approach for various pre and post-disaster management strategies. For effective implementation of microbial engineering in management strategies requires knowledge of Microbiology, Ecology, biochemical mechanisms and field engineering. Due to microbes’ ubiquitous nature and small sizes, these can be successfully manipulated for desired functions in question.