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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
In 2019, 30,000 people were forced to leave their homes due to conflict, persecution, and natural disaster each day.
Adequate environmental health services are critical for human rights, health, and development, especially in the context of forced d
The most important information concerning WASH and the COVID-19 virus is summarized here.
The provision of safe water and adequate sanitation facilities to communities is a key part of Save the Children’s work in emergenci
Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Changes in water quality of a sand aquifer on the east coast of Sri Lanka due to the 26 December 2004 tsunami and subsequent remedia
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.