Water Borne Diseases in Libya

Waterborne diseases are caused by a variety of microorganisms, biotoxins, and toxic contaminants, which lead to devastating illnesses such as cholera, schistosomiasis and other gastrointestinal problems.

Outbreaks of waterborne diseases often occur after a severe precipitation event. Because climate change increases the severity and frequency of some major precipitation events, communities—especially in the developing world—could be faced with elevated disease burden from waterborne diseases. In addition, diseases caused by Vibrio bacteria such as cholera and other intestinal diseases may pose a greater threat due to the effect that rising sea temperatures will have on the growth and spread of bacteria. Climate change is likely to increase diarrheal disease incidence worldwide, and extreme weather conditions may also complicate already-inadequate prevention efforts. Although the United States has prevention and treatment strategies for waterborne diseases, surveillance is still spotty, diagnoses are not uniform, and understanding of the impact of climate change on these diseases is not well established.

The World Health Organization estimates that 58% of that burden, or 842,000 deaths per year, is attributable to a lack of safe drinking water supply, sanitation and hygiene Libya has less water which makes it harder for Libyan people to get rid of thirst, they found a nonrenewable source of fossil water which they want to transfer this water to the rest of the country the Man-Made River Project provides about 75% of Libya’s annual water demand (agriculture) from 1,000 wells, with some surface water reservoirs for temporary water storage. They will make the great man river project called “Grand Omar Mukhtar”, which they found while searching for natural oil, to reduce disease and water scarcity the government will give this water and provide it to the people in Libya.

To ensure Libyan people don’t have to get polluted water the government is trying to provide water to the society, in time of crisis Libya got many disease and water got polluted but that didn’t stop Libya from growing and with the help of WHO Libya got the medicines and healthcare to get rid of the diseases, which made Libya more healthy and helped it to regain its power and disease and waterborne disease to reduce And since Libya is a desert it has less water source which make the use the water they have and filter it to reduce the disease and the need of water which makes people head to drink polluted water.