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Background: Cholera poses a significant global health burden.
After a series of earthquakes devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 12 January 2010, safe excreta disposal became an urgent priority.
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
In peri-urban Monrovia, contaminated hand-dug wells were contributing to cholera outbreaks.