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The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation facilities to communities is a key part of Save the Children’s work in emergenci
This discussion paper summarizes the results and implications of a study commissioned by the World Bank to conduct
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
In a disaster context, where risk for diarrhoeal disease is elevated, personal hygiene, i.e.
For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways
The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe between 2008-2009 also came against a backdrop of water and sanitation infrastructure issues that r
Following the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the vital domestic fresh-water wells in the coastal zone were either scoured out of
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan