Water has a profound influence on
human health. At a very basic level, a minimum amount of water is required for
consumption on a daily basis for survival and therefore access to some form of
water is essential for life. However, water has much broader influences on
health and well being and issues such as the quantity and quality of the water
supplied are important in determining the health of individuals and whole
communities.
The quality of water does, however,
have a great influence on public health; in particular the microbiological
quality of water is important in preventing ill-health. Poor microbiological
quality is likely to lead to outbreaks of infectious water-related diseases and
may causes serious epidemics to occur.
The microbiological quality of
drinking-water has been implicated in the spread of important infectious and
parasitic diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery, hepatitis, giardiasis,
guinea worm and schistosomiasis.
‘Microorganisms don’t just attach
themselves to water and deteriorate its quality, but they are introduced
majorly by careless anthropogenic activities of man’ (Victor O. 2016)
WOTA MATAS QUESTION {WMQ} - WHEN
LAST DID YOU WASH YOUR WATER STORAGE TANKS?!!!!!!!!!!!
