Why Water-borne Diseases Are Still a Problem in India? Water-borne diseases are illnesses caused and transmitted by the use and consumption of contaminated water. The long list of water related diseases and conditions include:
Anaemia Ascariasis Botulism Diarrhoea Dracunculiasis Fluorosis Hookworm infection Japanese encephalitis Lymphatic filariasis Malaria Malnutrition Polio Ring Worm Tinea Scabies Schistomiasis
According to gastroenterologists in Patna, who work at one of the best hospital for gastroenterology there, water-borne diseases are still a problem in India, in rural as well as urban areas of the country. The reasons for this, as these experts working at a super-speciality hospital in Patna describe, are not one, but plenty.