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This paper intends to examine the impacts of flood on water supply and sanitation condition along with flood induced health problems
Changes in water quality of a sand aquifer on the east coast of Sri Lanka due to the 26 December 2004 tsunami and subsequent remedia
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
Kabul and Monrovia, the respective capitals of Afghanistan and Liberia, have recently emerged from long-lasting armed conflicts.
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in urban contexts has been identified by the Global WASH Learning Project as a priorit
The supply of adequate amounts of safe water for drinking and hygiene during natural disasters or armed conflict can be compromised
Tropical Storm Jeanne struck Haiti in September 2004, causing widespread flooding which contaminated water sources, displaced thousa
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets
The water supply of the rural coastal areas in Sri Lanka is provided by private open dug wells, most of which have been flooded by s
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.