Q. You are Mehak/Mahesh. Read the newspaper report below. Then write a speech on 'Water-Borne Diseases-A Threat' to be delivered by you at the occasion of 'World Health Day'. Write this speech using information from the report together with your own ideas. You may use not more than 120 words.
ALL WATER SAMPLES FAIL
Samples of drinking water drawn from the municipal limits of the district were found to be
contaminated. The samples collected by the district health authorities from the municipal
councils and the public health water resources of these towns were found to contain
unacceptable levels of bacteria and were unfit for human consumption. The district civil
surgeon admitted that the bacteria in water might be the source of various diseases including diarrhoea, cholera, hepatitis and typhoid. The contaminated water is more harmful for visitors than the locals.
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Answer:
Water a life-giving liquid can also be a life-taking lethal fluid. Around 3.1% of deaths in the world are due to unhygienic and poor quality of water.
The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of diseases worldwide are waterborne.
Alarmingly, groundwater in one-third of India’s 600 districts is deemed unfit for drinking – with dangerous levels of fluoride, iron, salinity and arsenic. About 65 million people suffer from fluorosis, a crippling disease caused by excess fluoride – a condition commonly found in the Rajasthan state region, in northern India.
A World Resources Report from the Washington DC-based World Resources Institute labelled a shocking 70 per cent of India’s water supply as being seriously polluted. The United Nations also ranked India’s water quality at a horrifying 120th among 122 nations in the quality of water available for human consumption – 122nd being the worst.
Waterborne diseases:
Poor water quality becomes inevitable when water gets polluted with industrial waste, human waste, animal waste, garbage, untreated sewage, chemical effluents, etc. Drinking or cooking with such polluted water leads to waterborne diseases and infections such as amoebiasis, giardiasis, and toxoplasmosis.
Answer:
Water a life-giving liquid can also be a life-taking lethal fluid. Around 3.1% of deaths in the world are due to unhygienic and poor quality of water.
The World Health Organization estimates that 80% of diseases worldwide are waterborne.
Alarmingly, groundwater in one-third of India’s 600 districts is deemed unfit for drinking – with dangerous levels of fluoride, iron, salinity and arsenic. About 65 million people suffer from fluorosis, a crippling disease caused by excess fluoride – a condition commonly found in the Rajasthan state region, in northern India.
A World Resources Report from the Washington DC-based World Resources Institute labelled a shocking 70 per cent of India’s water supply as being seriously polluted. The United Nations also ranked India’s water quality at a horrifying 120th among 122 nations in the quality of water available for human consumption – 122nd being the worst.
Waterborne diseases:
Poor water quality becomes inevitable when water gets polluted with industrial waste, human waste, animal waste, garbage, untreated sewage, chemical effluents, etc. Drinking or cooking with such polluted water leads to waterborne diseases and infections such as amoebiasis, giardiasis, and toxoplasmosis.