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This background paper focuses on supporting sustainable, equitable and resilient water services over the short and long term during
Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections account for nearly 30% of deaths among children displaced by humanitarian emergencies.
Dispensers are a source-based water quality intervention with promising uptake results in development contexts.
Appropriate and adequate sanitation solutions are crucial for the protection of human and environmental health in emergencies.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.