Water Borne Diseases:

Water borne diseases are those diseases primarily spread through contaminated water. These are infectious in nature and may spread through direct contact or through flies, etc. These can be classified as shown in Table.

Table: Classification of Water-borne Diseases

Water is the main media for spread of such diseases. Thus these are called as water borne diseases. All these water-borne diseases affect primarily the intestinal tract and are spread always by excretal matter. Sometimes urine also contains enormous number of pathogenic organisms especially in case of typhoid fever.