Project description JICA regularly dispatches Japan Disaster Relief (JDR) teams and provides emergency relief supplies when major disasters occur, mainly in, but not limited to, developing areas. They do this in response to requests received from the governments of affected countries or international agencies. An important part of these rapid deployments is to provide safe drinking water to remote areas with no or only partially intact infrastructure. In these large-scale disaster areas, self-suffi cient teams are not only required to support themselves with drinking water, but also as many affected people of the disaster zone as well. After having evaluating several water fi ltration systems, JiCA selected the Katadyn Expedition fi lter as standard equipment for their disaster rel

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