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Purpose. The 2014 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa was the largest in history.
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.
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.