Water, sanitation and hygiene have important impacts on both health and disease.
Water-related diseases include:- those due to micro-organisms and chemicals in water people drink;
- diseases like schistosomiasis which have part of their lifecycle in water;
- diseases like malaria with water-related vectors;
- drowning and some injuries;
- and others such as legionellosis carried by aerosols containing certain micro-organisms
Information sheets
- Anaemia
- Arsenicosis See also: Arsenic in drinking-water
- Ascariasis
- Campylobacteriosis. See other WHO related activities
- Cholera. See also other WHO related activities
- Cyanobacterial Toxins
- Dengue and Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever. See other WHO related activities
- Diarrhoea . See other WHO related activities
- Drowning
- Fluorosis
- Hepatitis. See other WHO related activities
- Japanese Encephalitis. See other WHO related activities
- Lead Poisoning. See also lead in drinking-water
- Leptospirosis
- Malaria . See also: WHO Activities on Malaria
- Malnutrition . See also Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition
- Methaemoglobinemia
- Onchocerciasis (River Blindness). See other WHO related activities
- Ringworm (Tinea)
- Scabies
- Schistosomiasis. See other WHO related activities
- Spinal Injury
- Trachoma. See other WHO related activities
- Typhoid and Paratyphoid Enteric Fevers. See WHO related activities
