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For people affected by disaster, whether wars, earthquakes, or disease epidemics, conditions of life can change suddenly and in ways
Point-of-use water treatment (PoUWT), such as boiling or chlorine disinfection, has long been recommended in emergencies.
The devastating earthquake of 2005 severely damaged over 4000 water and sanitation schemes in northern Pakistan.
After the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, thousands of agencies, organizations, and individual people tried to find ways to help the pe
A simple method for filtering water to reduce the incidence of cholera was tested in a field trial in Matlab, Bangladesh, and proved
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m
Tropical Storm Jeanne struck Haiti in September 2004, causing widespread flooding which contaminated water sources, displaced thousa
The December 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, Indonesia, destroyed drinking water infrastructure, placing over 500,000 displaced persons at