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Following the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the vital domestic fresh-water wells in the coastal zone were either scoured out of
In July 2007, a study by the Centre for Environmental Health Engineering, at the University of Surrey, assessed a modified method of
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m
The December 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, Indonesia, destroyed drinking water infrastructure, placing over 500,000 displaced persons at
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
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.