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Waterborne and water-related diseases are those caused by protozoa, viruses, bacteria, and intestinal parasites, all pathogenic or disease-causing microorganisms directly transmitted when contaminated drinking water is consumed. Some 88 percent of diseases worldwide is attributed to unsafe water supply, bad sanitation and unhygienic practices that mostly hit the poor, weak and sick, especially children, in developing countriesincluding the Philippines. These diseases are due to massive pollution of water resources. According to the Water Environment Partnership in Asia, nearly 2.2 million metric tons of organic pollution are produced annually by domestic (48 percent), agricultural (37 percent), and industrial (15 percent) sectors. In the Philippines four water-critical regionsthe National Capital Region or Metro Manila, Central Luzon, Southern Tagalog and Central Visayaswater pollution is caused mainly by household (or domestic) and industrial wastes. Untreated wastewater damages human and animal health by spreading disease-causing bacteria and viruses, making water unfit for drinking and for recreational use. Both untreated water with household and industrial wastes also threatens biodiversity and the overall quality of life in the community. Known diseases caused by polluted and infected water include gastro-enteritis, diarrhea, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, hepatitis, and more recently, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Each year, around 6,000 Filipinos die prematurely from waterborne, or water-related diseases such as diarrhea, which is the second leading cause of morbidity in the Philippines. Ironically, the Philippines is supposed to have a relatively mild water problem compared to other countries such as some in Africa. The number of water-related health outbreaks including deaths reported in Philippine newspapers is going up. However, awareness here of the need for improved sanitation and water pollution control, reflected by the willingness to pay for being connected to a sewerage system where they are available is very low. According to the World Health Organization, in 2004, some 85 percent of Filipinos had sustainable access to an improved water source, while 72 percent had access to improved sanitation. As of 2006, the target for reduction in diarrhea incidence had already been reached at 708 per 100,000. This decline was largely due to the increase in access to safe water and sanitation services and hand washing. That was big improvement over 2000, when the incidence of diarrhea was a record high of 1,135 per 100,000 population and diarrhea deaths were 5.3 per 100,000. The Department of Health exceeded its aims to reduce diarrhea incidence to 750 cases per 100,000 population, and the death rate to less than one per 100,000 population by 2010. However, despite significant improvements in good-water and sanitation coverage, water and sanitation-related diseases remain major health problems. High diarrhea prevalence continues to persist in underserved areas like the Cordillera Administrative Region, Western Visayas (Region 7), and Mimaropa (Region 4B). Diarrhea is most commonly caused by Virus (biology) viral infections, Parasites parasites or Bacterium bacterial toxins. Where living conditions are sanitary, and with ample good food and good potable water guaranteed, a person sick with diarrhea usually recovers from in a few days. However, for malnourished individuals diarrhea can lead to severe Dehydration dehydration and death without treatment and rich dietary reinforcement. In 2006, the Philippines suffered several outbreaks of diarrhea spread in many parts of the country. In northern Luzon, several municipalities in Ifugao province were hit, and the causative organisms isolated were identified to be cholera and amoeba. In a distant town in Palawan, indigenous people had diarrhea as symptoms of deadly cholera. Some municipalities in Catanduanes had mixed causes of diarrhea, including the bacteria Salmonella, E. coli, Vibrios and Aeromonas all delivered to households from a contaminated water source. In the Visayas, a town in Bohol province had a diarrhea epidemic caused by Shigella, and it was later noted that the water source was contaminated. In all the diarrhea-affected areas, deaths were reported. While considered the usual culprit, diarrhea is not only the water-borne disease that can erupt. An outbreak of Hepatitis A in Surigao del Sur in Mindanao once occurred among students of a state college, with contaminated food sold outside the school traced as the infection source. The food sold to the students were prepared with contaminated water. Hepatitis A or infectious hepatitis is an Acute (medical) acute Infectious disease liver disease caused by a virus commonly transmitted by the Fecal-oral route fecal-oral route via contaminated food or drinking water. In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country developing countries, and in regions with poor hygienic standards, the Incidence (epidemiology) incidence of infection with this virus approaches 100 percent, and the illness is usually contracted in early childhood. Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever are acute diseases found in the tropics, caused by viruses that spread like malaria. Unlike malaria, dengue is often found in urban areas. Dengue is normally transmitted to humans by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that feeds during the day. In areas with many bodies of stagnant water, such as in Metro Manila, dengue continues to be a major water-borne disease. It happened in the early part of this year in Laguna. In 2006, dengue hit several cities of Luzon and over 28,000 cases were recorded in sentinel hospitals. But it was estimated that there were really more than 100,000 cases. Metro Manila and the Cordillera Autonomous Region recorded a 30 percent increase in dengue cases, although mortality was reduced to 0.75 percent. Dengue is now spreading to semi-urban pockets of Mindanao. All these disease outbreaks point to poor environmental sanitation, contaminated water and food as the most likely causes. Rural areas are the most affected because of water systems like traditional wells and polluted rivers streams. The reduction of the burden of water-borne diseases requires citizens access to safe water and sanitation services.