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In Adré transit camp, MSF-built water systems produced 654 m³ of water per day in May alone. Since March 2025, one of the 10 boreholes - borehole #11 - has been extracting water using a solar-powered pump, which then distributes water to five additional distribution points.

Water and sanitation

People gather to collect clean water at an MSF system in Adré transit camp. Chad, April 2025.
© Gabriella Bianchi/MSF
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Clean water and sanitation services are necessities for good health.

After a flood, damaged infrastructure for sanitation and water services needs to be quickly fixed. At a new refugee camp, showers and latrines have to be built. And where waterborne diseases are endemic, safe sources for water must be identified.

Around the world, our teams are responding to disease outbreaks that result from unclean water and unsanitary living conditions. They’re also preventing these outbreaks from happening by providing communities with the water, sanitation, and hygiene services they need. Not only because people should be free from these diseases, but because clean water and sanitary living conditions are crucial for reinforcing people’s dignity. 

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Supplying clean water in Ethiopia

Negash Yitayew, MSF’s environmental health manager in Ethiopia, describes how his team supplies clean water to a hospital in the arid region of Afar. Ethiopia, 2024.
Omar Rashid/MSF
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