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Fragility has become the reality in several countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
The devastating earthquake of 2005 severely damaged over 4000 water and sanitation schemes in northern Pakistan.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, thousands of agencies, organizations, and individual people tried to find ways to help the pe
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.