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The operation of a health care facility, such as a cholera or Ebola treatment center in an emergency setting, results in the product
Mount Sinabung erupted in September 2013, causing the mass evacuation of more than 30,000 people.
When water supplies are compromised during an emergency, responders often recommend household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS
Household water treatment (HWTS) methods, such as boiling or chlorination, have long been recommended in emergencies.
As recent emergencies have shown, there are still significant challenges in the timely provision of safe sanitation in natural disas
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
The response to the Haiti earthquake in 2010 highlighted the use of rented portable toilets in emergency context.
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret