Nobody wants to talk about it. It doesn’t photograph well for Instagram. There are no cool gadgets or tactical gear involved. But when the water stops flowing and the toilets stop flushing, sanitation becomes the difference between uncomfortable inconvenience and life-threatening disease. History teaches this lesson brutally. During disasters, cholera, dysentery, and other sanitation-related diseases often kill more people than the initial catastrophe. The 2010 Haiti earthquake’s death toll was horrific—but the subsequent cholera outbreak killed thousands more. Poor sanitation breeds disease. Disease spreads fast in disaster conditions. People die.…
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