Water Wells Polluted By Septic Tanks?
In our world, drinking water contaminated with sewage is the principal cause of waterborne disease. However , this type of contamination is almost never found in places with public health departments. In less fortunate places, the diseases that usually come to mind in this connection are bacterial and viral gastroenteritis, giardiasis, hepatitis A, shigellosis, typhoid and paratyphoid fever. However, because of local health departments, and control over a lessening number of carriers, the incidence of these diseases have been reduced to a low residual level. Occasional outbreaks, due mostly to carriers, remind us that these diseases still pose a potential threat. Small water systems are almost never involved in disease outbreaks. When rural subdivisions are proposed by developers, worried neighbors bring up the risk of water well pollution by septic tanks more than any other issue. In reality, very few documented cases of water wells, public or private being contaminated with sewage fr
