Water-related disease
Water, sanitation and hygiene have important impacts on both health and disease.
Water-related diseases include those due to micro-organisms and chemicals in water people drink; diseases like schistosomiasis which have part of their lifecycle in water; diseases like malaria with water-related vectors; drowning and some injuries; and others such as legionellosis carried by aerosols containing certain micro-organisms.
Water also contributes to health, for example through hygiene.
In the following sections you can find:
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Water recreation and diseases. Plausibility of associated infections
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Fact sheets on over 20 water-related diseases
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Estimates of the global burden of water-related disease
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Water requirements (quantity, service level) to secure health benefits
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Water, sanitation and hygiene links to health: facts and figures updated November 2004
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