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Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic poses a grave threat to refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Point-of-use (POU) water treatment with sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) has been proven to reduce diarrheal disease in de
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m
A number of organizations engaged in tanker trucks to deliver water to populations affected by the 2005 tsunami in Indonesia.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.