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Children under 18 can represent 50% or more of a crisis-affected population.
Safe excreta disposal is a top priority in an emergency, but one that takes time and extensive resources to implement.
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in urban contexts has been identified by the Global WASH Learning Project as a priorit
Inadequate sanitation, inadequate water supplies and poor hygiene are critical determinants for survival of victims of natural disas
Emergency water treatment approaches relying on coagulation vary from centralised modular and portable ‘‘kits’’ to ‘‘
Sanitation is an issue often neglected in development decision making.
Batch water treatment consists of the intermittent use of settling tanks for water clarification, and is a common treatment practice
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