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Somali Region of Ethiopia has been affected by drought for several years.
Background. Diarrhoeal diseases are a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in humanitarian crises.
The project was implemented jointly by LWF and NCA.
Globally, an estimated 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.
The devastating earthquake of 2005 severely damaged over 4000 water and sanitation schemes in northern Pakistan.
The devastating earthquake on 8 October 2005 caused the immediate death of more than 70,000 people with injury and displacement to m
Batch water treatment consists of the intermittent use of settling tanks for water clarification, and is a common treatment practice
This paper describes the potential of ecological sanitation (ecosan), and in particular of urine-diversion dehydrating (UDD) toilets