Question

What measure would you take to prevent water borne diseases?

Answer 1

Hint: Drinking contaminated water is one of the main reasons for water borne diseases such as typhoid, cholera, etc.

Complete answer:
The measures that can be taken to prevent water-borne diseases are as follows:
1. One should drink bottled water or boiled or filter water the water being used for drinking and cooking to ensure all the pathogens are killed.
2. Regular cleaning of water containers i.e. Water jars/containers should be washed daily. We should check our water reservoirs regularly.
3. Make sure that the pipes and tanks that supply water to your house are properly maintained and clean.
4. By maintaining personal hygiene, such as washing your hands and feet on returning home after a walk through the puddles is a must. This can help reduce the chances of contracting water-borne diseases like jaundice, cholera and typhoid fever.
5. Eat proper cooked and warm food, wash vegetables and fruits before cooking.
6. Maintain cleanliness in surroundings and lot letting water to get accumulated longer at any places & proper disposal of infant and toddler feces.
7. Avoid foods and fruit juices from roadside vendors because you may never know if the water they use is safe or not.
8. Keep food and drinking water as covered as the preventive measures for water borne diseases.
9. Chlorination of drinking water, proper sanitation and hygiene practices to interrupt the disease transmission by vector is an effective measure.
10. To prevent water borne diseases we should dispose of sewage, excreta etc properly.
11. Using detergent and hot water, discard or flush any stool in the toilet.

Note: As per the WHO (world health organization), vaccines avert up to 3 million deaths globally. Vaccination is a method that is highly effective to control the outcome of water-borne diseases. They can be given to large populations in cases of emergencies. However, they cannot replace conventional measures of prevention.
WHO developed two oral vaccines for Cholera disease that were used in mass vaccination campaigns. Nowadays, they are considered an effective tool against high-risk cholera and are being used worldwide.