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Protracted armed conflicts in the Middle East and Africa are heavily impacting the infrastructure of basic services such as water, e
Legal principles and moral obligations that guarantee the basic needs of people living in humanitarian crisis situations (HCSs) pred
This paper aims to understand the value of collaboration in a ‘state of emergency’ situation, featuring the case of the water, sanit
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
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
After emergency situations, aid agencies tend to implement sanitation systems that exhibit good principles for managing human excret
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.