water sanitation
Clean drinking supply
Water sanitation refers to systems and practices that ensure water is safe for human use—filtering, treating, or disposing of contaminated water to prevent disease.
The term encompasses both making drinking water clean and managing wastewater: The NGO focused on water sanitation in rural villages.
Often paired with hygiene in public health contexts: water, sanitation, and hygiene programs.
- chlorinationDisinfecting with a halogen
- waterborne diseasesIllnesses from contaminated aquatic sources
- handwashing stationsPlaces to clean hands
- pumping stationsFacilities that move fluids
- filtrationSeparating solids from liquids
boreholes · hand pump · reverse osmosis · distillation · drainage systems · aqueducts · coagulation · ozonation · reservoirs · septic tanks · sewage system · desalination plants · sedimentation · health · drinking · contamination · safe · bacteria
water sanitationwater contamination
Harmful substances in drinking supply
water pollution · contaminated water · sewage · raw sewage · dirty water
water sanitationwaterborne disease
Illness transmitted through contaminated water
cholera outbreak · dysentery · poor hygiene · public health crisis · disease vector