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Background In October 2010, Haiti was struck by a large-scale cholera epidemic.
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
The aims of this study are to identify sanitation options for infants and young children less than five years old (IYCU5) in emergen
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
This briefing paper presents a case study of a Peepoo implementation in first phase humanitarian response.
In order to ensure maximum consumer benefits (e.g.
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
Following the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the vital domestic fresh-water wells in the coastal zone were either scoured out of
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