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Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
The project was implemented jointly by LWF and NCA.
When responding to an emergency situation, ensuring safe excreta disposal is an urgent priority in the disaster relief effort.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Batch water treatment consists of the intermittent use of settling tanks for water clarification, and is a common treatment practice
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.