Water Education: An Antidote to Water Borne Diseases for Sustainable Development

Abstract

This paper is designed to address the significance of water education. This is aimed at increasing public awareness on the importance of taking clean and safe water and keeping our bodies clean in order not to be contaminated with water borne-diseases. This paper therefore focuses on concept of water, water education, reasons for water education, water-borne diseases, transmission of water borne diseases, effects of water borne-diseases and the prevention of water borne diseases. When people’s behaviour is changed towards water issues as a result of proper information on water, it will go a long way to reduce the wide spread of water-borne diseases which kill over two billions of people annually. It was therefore recommended that comprehensive legislative programs should be enacted to protect and improve water quality and protect communities from water pollution thereby preventing water-borne diseases.