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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
Kabul and Monrovia, the respective capitals of Afghanistan and Liberia, have recently emerged from long-lasting armed conflicts.
The supply of adequate amounts of safe water for drinking and hygiene during natural disasters or armed conflict can be compromised
Following the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the vital domestic fresh-water wells in the coastal zone were either scoured out of
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
The Treguine refugee camp in Eastern Chad, is in a semi-arid terrain of hard, crystalline rock, where hard-rock boreholes proved ina
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets
The water supply of the rural coastal areas in Sri Lanka is provided by private open dug wells, most of which have been flooded by s
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret