Water pollution and health

S, Pandey

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Water pollution and health

creativeworkseries.issn	1812-2027
dc.contributor.author	S, Pandey
dc.date.accessioned	2025-07-21T08:45:22Z
dc.date.available	2025-07-21T08:45:22Z
dc.date.issued	2006
dc.description.abstract	Water is the important constituent of life support system. No one can live and even dream to live without water. Most of our water bodies have become polluted due to industrial growth; urbanization and man made problems mainly the result of population growth. Poor sanitation and contaminated drinking water arising from human activity and natural phenomena create serious problems in human health. The chief sources of water pollution are sewage and other waste, industrial effluents, agricultural discharges and industrial wastes from chemical industries, fossils fuel plants and nuclear power plants. They create a larger problem of water pollution rendering water no longer fit for drinking, agriculture and, as well as for aquatic life. More than 2.6 billion people-40% of the world’s population – lack basic sanitation facilities and over one billion people still use unsafe drinking water sources. As a result thousands of children die everyday from diarrhoea and other water, sanitation and hygiene related diseases and many suffer and are weakened by illness.1 Key words: Water pollution, Poor sanitation, contaminated drinking water, human health
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14572/488
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Kathmandu University
dc.title	Water pollution and health
dc.type	Article
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