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Humanitarian agencies strive to provide sanitation facilities which are safe, accessible and afford users privacy and dignity.
Poor lighting at water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities may reduce the usage of latrines and other services such as bathing
Lighting should be provided for WASH facilities in Humanitarian contexts according to several standards.
Most households in the districts of Sri Lanka affected by the tsunami possessed drinking water wells, and these wells were contamina
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
Following the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the vital domestic fresh-water wells in the coastal zone were either scoured out of
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
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
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret