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Background: Diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI) account for 30% of deaths among children displaced due
The devastating earthquake of 2005 severely damaged over 4000 water and sanitation schemes in northern Pakistan.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
Following the Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, the vital domestic fresh-water wells in the coastal zone were either scoured out of
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.