Science in the fight against water-borne disease
In this report in Microbiology Today, Joan Rose outlines some of the powerful tools science has produced to ensure the safety of drinking water. There is potential to eradicate some major diseases in the future and to re-evaluate our ‘water ethics philosophy’ to minimize the global danger of water contamination:
I heard once at a meeting that ‘safe water’ meant to a community what a ‘safe blood supply’ meant to medicine. Thus protecting the supply and vigilant monitoring are necessary to provide adequate life-saving water when and where we need it. Protection from disease-causing agents and pathogen discovery is one of the most important areas of study in the fight against water-borne disease.
I fear that if we sanitize our water to the extreme, our human body get so use to extreme clean water free from all pathogens, and when our body ever get the use of today clean (e.g. not extreme clean) water, our body immune system probably will fail to fight on itself. I can be wrong altogether… I’m no expert in this matter, and I can only suspect what if.
Years before I saw a film in Discovery channel, titled “invisible eyes”. Science have developed a powerful microscope , in which one drop of water was shown under microscope details. In one drop we have seen hundreds of thousands bacteria and other microorganism was seen. I agree with the suscpicion of BLOGMYWAY.