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Fourteen years of civil war left Liberia with crumbling infrastructure and one of the weakest health systems in the world.
Water chlorination is widely used in emergency responses to reduce diarrheal diseases, although communities with no prior exposure t
Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for nearly 30% of deaths among children displaced by humanitarian emergencies.
Batch water treatment consists of the intermittent use of settling tanks for water clarification, and is a common treatment practice