waterborne
Transmitted through liquid
Waterborne describes things carried, transmitted, or transported by water.
Waterborne diseases spread through contaminated drinking water.
Waterborne trade moves goods by ship or barge.
A waterborne vessel is one afloat and supported by water rather than resting on land or in dry dock.
Bacterial disease causing fatal dehydration
- typhoidSalmonella-caused systemic infection
- dysenteryBloody intestinal infection
- giardiasisProtozoan intestinal infection
- hepatitisInflammatory liver condition
leptospirosis · norovirus · rotavirus · shigellosis · salmonella · vibrio · polio · guinea-worm
Transported goods
- freightGoods being transported
- shippingTransporting goods to destinations
- bargeFlat freight vessel
- tankerVessel for liquid bulk
ferry · vessel · commerce · trade · goods · logistics · canal · river
Able to float
- adriftFloating without control
- driftingMoving without purpose
- afloatSupported by water
- bobbingRhythmic vertical movement
suspended · flotsam · jetsam · debris · plankton · sediment · particles · silt
Made impure by contaminants
- sewageLiquid refuse in drains
- industrialOf factories and production
- runoffExcess water drainage
- effluentDischarged liquid waste
pesticides · chemical · heavy metals · toxic · tainted · unsafe · hazardous · impure
cholera
Bacterial disease causing fatal dehydration
- typhoidSalmonella-caused systemic infection
- dysenteryBloody intestinal infection
- giardiasisProtozoan intestinal infection
hepatitis · leptospirosis · norovirus · rotavirus · shigellosis · salmonella · vibrio · polio · guinea-worm · outbreak
cargo
Transported goods
tanker · ferry · vessel · commerce · trade · goods · logistics · canal · river · port
buoyant
Able to float
bobbing · suspended · flotsam · jetsam · debris · plankton · sediment · particles · silt · algae
polluted
Made impure by contaminants
- sewageLiquid refuse in drains
- industrialOf factories and production
- runoffExcess water drainage
effluent · pesticides · chemical · heavy metals · toxic · tainted · unsafe · hazardous · impure · fouled
fleet
Vehicles under unified command
submarine · carrier · battleship · cruiser · corvette · armada · flotilla · navy · amphibious · invasion
- nautical termsahoy, afloat, aye aye, aye-aye, becalmed
- water wordsocean, rain, sea, wet, moist
- choleracholera vaccine, diarrhea, rehydration, fecal-oral, outbreak
- disease spreadbloodborne, contact, droplets, fecal-oral, transmission
- manner of spreadingdiffusion, scatter, broadcast, radiation, dispersion
- stomach virusesnorovirus, rotavirus, astrovirus, adenovirus, viral gastroenteritis
waterborneairborne
Traveling through air
land-based · overland · terrestrial · aerial · ground-based
- waterborne illnessSickness transmitted through water
water, watery, waterfall, waterproof, watershed, airborne, borne, watertight, waterless