Abstract
Since the civilization & before that historically human
settlement had been always near to availability of
water resources that may be rivers, wells, springs and
other sources, without water human can survive just
few days, ultimately leading to death; unfortunately
now even with the availability of contaminated water
for majority of population in Pakistan and world over
we are inviting death.
Water is mainly classified in four groups; potable
water, clean water, polluted water & contaminated
water1
.
The public health care system mainly comprises of
preventive health and curative one. The more
important and strong part of this system must be
preventive. There are many etiological factors causing
various diseases but here we will be specific to water
borne diseases, which is not only hazardous to health
but also big economical burden on the budget of
Pakistan to treat the disease thereafter using polluted
& contaminated water billions of rupees are spent
every year by government and public.
This economic burden on public is taken under the
heads of cost of medical treatment, cost of transport,
food and absent from working thus indirectly
decreasing the productivity of our population.
Availability of safe drinking water is not only problem
for our country but most of the third world countries,
as result of this neglect every year. 250,000 Pakistani
children die under the age of 5 years and we spent
1.3 billion US $ annually, a big economic burden as
cost for treatment
Mohan Lal Bhootrani, Aneela Atta-u-Rehman. (2017) Unsafe Drinking Water - Impact on Health and Economy, Journal of Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences, Volume-16, Issue-1.
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