Water borne diseasesPublic healthToxic chemicalsPakistanWater contamination is one of the most significant hazards to human health on the world scale. Drinking water quality in Pakistan is decreasing gradually due to alarming population growth, rapid industrialization, climate change and lack of efficient...
Water borne diseases spread by contamination of drinking water systems with the urine and faeces of infected animal or people. This is likely to occur where public and private drinking water systems get their water from surface waters (rain, creeks, rivers, lakes etc.), which can be contaminate...
Water-borne pathogen contamination in ambient water bodies and related diseases are a major water quality concern throughout the world. Pathogen contamination is a serious issue for almost all types of ambient water bodies, making its recognition and understanding essential (U.S. EPA [2012a]). Th...
Additionally, similar drinking water intake contamination by harmful cyanobacteria blooms was reported in the municipality of Toledo, Ohio (US), in early August 2014, which directly affected over 400,000 residential customers and hundreds of businesses [53,54]. Freshwater lakes and reservoirs are at...
Waterborne Disease Enteric waterborne disease resembles disease resulting from contamination of food and can be caused by many of the path ogens generally associated with foodborne transmission. Large waterborne outbreaks resulting in enteric illness have been caused by Campylobacter jejuni, E. coli ...
diseases. The probable contaminations and their possible routes are discussed in the present review. Continued research efforts result in some processes/technologies to remove the contaminations from water. The review includes concepts and potentialities of the technologies in a comprehensible form. It ...
Water pollutionis the contamination of water bodies such as lakes, rivers, oceans, and groundwater by human activities. All water pollution affects organisms and plants that live in these water bodies and in almost all cases the effect is damaging either to individual species and populations but ...
“Considering my HIV status, water-related illnesses put my life at risk. I am so grateful to God for PaCT…We are now assured that the water we drink is free from contamination. I can now live a long, healthy life free from water-related diseases." ...
Across Sub-Saharan Africa, wetlands often constitute the only accessible water resources in otherwise uninhabitable landscapes, which is why they are being used extensively for domestic and agricultural purposes [52]. The resulting degradation and contamination of water has the potential to spread diseas...
Drinking water and infectious disease. Establishing the links: P.R. Hunter, M. Waite, E. Ronchi (Eds.); CRC Press, 2002, 248pp, ISBN 1843390272 (£89)Drinking water, Congresses, Microbiology, Communicable diseases, Environmental aspects, Waterborne infection, Contamination...