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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.
An immediate need and vital resource, potable water becomes critical in the aftermath of a disaster; affected communities cannot rec
Most households in the districts of Sri Lanka affected by the tsunami possessed drinking water wells, and these wells were contamina
Point-of-use (POU) water treatment with sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) has been proven to reduce diarrheal disease in de
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.