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Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
The most important information concerning WASH and the COVID-19 virus is summarized here.
Handwashing practices prove to be an effective and easy way of ensuring the health of populations affected by emergencies and humani
The provision of safe water in adequate quantities is a basic necessity in emergencies to prevent the transmission of infectious dis
Dispensers are a source-based water quality intervention with promising uptake results in development contexts.
Batch water treatment consists of the intermittent use of settling tanks for water clarification, and is a common treatment practice
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan