Environtmental and Global Health

Posts Tagged ‘Water pollutants’

There are a number of water contaminants that can be classified in many different ways. One possibility is to group largely utilized in the following eight groups:

#Pathogen.

Are the different types of bacteria, viruses, protozoa and other organisms that transmit diseases such as cholera, typhoid, gastroenteritis different, hepatitis, etc. In developing countries diseases caused by these pathogens are one of the main reasons for premature death, especially of children.

Normally these bacteria get into the water in the feces and other organic debris produced by infected people. For this, a good index to measure the health of the waters in regard to these microorganisms, is the number of coliform bacteria in water. Read the rest of this entry »