What are the Water Borne Diseases?
In developing countries four-fifths of all the illness is caused by water-borne diseases, with diarrhea being the leading cause of childhood death. Drinking water contaminated by human or animal feces, which contains pathogenic microorganisms, causes water borne diseases. Floodwaters can carry with it raw sewage, silt, oil or chemical wastes and cause diarrhea and dysentery. Infectious diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and protozoa are the most common and wide spread health risk associated with drinking water.
