Water Borne Diseases
Fuente: Electrochlorination.
1 del 2 de 2012
Supply of fresh and clean drinking water is a basic need for all human beings on the earth, yet it has been observed that millions of people worldwide are deprived of this. Industrial growth, urbanization and the increasing use of synthetic organic substances have serious and adverse impacts on freshwater bodies.
The term "waterborne disease" is reserved largely for infections that predominantly are transmitted through contact with or consumption of infected water. Drinking of water contaminated by human or animal feces, which contains pathogenic microorganisms, causes water borne diseases. Many infections might be transmitted by microbes or parasites that accidentally, possibly as a result of exceptional circumstances, had got into water, but the fact that there might be an occasional freak infection does not mean that it is useful to categorise the resulting disease as "waterborne". In developing countries four-fifths of all the illness are caused by water-borne diseases, with diarrhea being the leading cause of childhood death.
