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Household water treatment (HWTS) methods, such as boiling or chlorination, have long been recommended in emergencies.
Refugee populations often flee with very little belongings and lack appropriate hygiene infrastructure in an environment that is unf
The devastating earthquake of 2005 severely damaged over 4000 water and sanitation schemes in northern Pakistan.
In response to the recent cholera outbreak, a public health response targeted high-risk communities, including resource-poor communi
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in urban contexts has been identified by the Global WASH Learning Project as a priorit
In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of
This briefing paper is aimed at all those involved in facilitating hygiene improvement in an acute.
Recent investigations into the March 2003 outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong have concluded that environmental factors played an importan
Diarrhoea is one of the five major causes of death in an emergency setting and one of the three main causes of death in children (Cu