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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
In 2019, 30,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to conflict, persecution, and natural disaster each day.
Adequate environmental health services are critical for human rights, health, and development, especially in the context of forced d
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
After the Ebola outbreak was declared in Sierra Leone, in June 2014, early messages about the high mortality rate of Ebola were met
An immediate need and vital resource, potable water becomes critical in the aftermath of a disaster; affected communities cannot rec
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina
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