Waterborne (and water-washed, also food-borne)

• Cholera n Polio
  
• Diarrhoeal diseases
• Roundworm
  
• Enteric fevers: typhoid
• Whipworm
  
• Infective jaundice
  

Water-Washed

• Scabies
• Typhus
  
• Trachoma
• Lice
• Leishmaniasis
  

Water-Based

• Bilharzia (Schistosomiasis)
• Guinea worm
  

Water-Related Insect Vector

• Malaria
• River blindness
  
• Sleeping sickness
• Yellow fever
  
• Breakbone fever (Dengue)
• Filariasis

Source: Adapted from Satterthwaite, David et al., The Environment for Children. United Nations Children’s Fund and Earthscan, New York, 1996.

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