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Household water treatment (HWTS) methods, such as boiling or chlorination, have long been recommended in emergencies.
Refugee populations often flee with very little belongings and lack appropriate hygiene infrastructure in an environment that is unf
In response to the recent cholera outbreak, a public health response targeted high-risk communities, including resource-poor communi
After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, thousands of agencies, organizations, and individual people tried to find ways to help the pe
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.