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Water contributes much to health Hippocrates
460-370 B.C. Water, water, everywhere, and all
the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere
nor any drop to drink Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834 Two billion people drink water that
others would not even use to wash their cars,
while another 1.2 billion people would dearly
love to have such water Today
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• WATER-RELATED DISEASES
• Microbiological waterborne diseases
• Chemical waterborne diseases
• Water hygiene diseases
• Water contact diseases
• Water habitat vector diseases
• Excreta disposal diseases

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CHEMICAL WATER-BORNE DISEASES Heavy
metals Persistent organic pollutants
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• MICROBIOLOGICAL WATER-BORNE DISEASES
• Amebiasis
• Bacillary dysentery (Shigellosis)
• Cholera
• Diarrheal diseases
• Escherichia Coli diseases

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• MICROBIOLOGICAL WATER-BORNE DISEASES
• Hepatitis A viruses
• Giardiasis
• Typhoid fever
• Salmonelosis
• Leptospirosis

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• WATER HABITAT VECTOR_BORNE DISEASES
• Schistosomiasis
• Yellow fever
• Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever
• Malaria

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• WHAT CAN BE DONE
• To develop instruments and mechanisms to
  protect surface and ground water resources
  predominantly destined for human consumption
• To reduce the prevalence of water habitat
  vector borne diseases, starting with the
  eradication of Schistosomiasis
• To establish and enforce water quality
  standards for recreational waters

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• WHAT CAN BE DONE
• To increase communities awareness in relation
  to the health value of water
• To increase the investments in the water and
  sanitation sector
• To promote more integrated water management
  projects