Health & Water

Do you know ?

1. March 22nd is "World Water Day"
2. Dirty water causes Cholera, Diarrhea, Dysentery, Parasites, Typhoid
3. These Diarrhoeal diseases kill around 2 million children each year- 5,000 per day, and million more to fall ill. Because children are particularly vulnerable to the dangers of dirty water in emergencies such as natural disasters and conflicts. [UNICEF]
4. Dirty water kills 4000 children a day
5. Water-borne diseases are one of the major cases of under-5 mortality, along with pneumonia, malaria, and measles [UNICEF]
6. 5 million people are killed each year due to water related diseases = 10 times the people killed in wars
7. The greatest developmental failure of 20th century = failure of safe water provision

Adverse Human Health Effects due polluted water are divided into 4 major groups;

[Source : http://www.wateryear2003.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1600&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ]

Water-borne diseases

cholera, typhoid, bacillary disentry, polio, meningitis, hepatitis A and E and diarrhoea, among others. These are caused by contamination of water by human, animal, or chemical wastes.

Water-based diseases

Guinea worm disease, filariasis (also a vector disease), paragonimiasis, clonorchiasis and schistosomiasis. These diseases are caused by a variety of flukes, tapeworms, roundworms and tissue nematodes, often referred to as helminths, that infect humans

Water-related vector diseases

Malaria, yellow fever, dengue fever, sleeping sickness and filariasis. These are caused by vectors such as Mosquitoes and tsetse flies

Water-scarce diseases

Trachoma and tuberculosis. These are caused when freshwater is scarce and sanitation is poor.

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