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• Pollution
• Radiation
• Electromagnetic fields
• Occupational risks
• Built environments including major infrastructural and engineering works
• Man-made vector breeding places
• Agricultural practices
• Waste management
• Man-made ecosystem and climate change
• Unsafe environment such as safe road/bus stand
• Safe water and sanitation
The individuals whose health can be affected due to water pollution could be the
following:
• Someone who is in the vicinity of the water body
• Someone who is consuming water pumped from the water body
• Somebody who is consuming aquatic organisms (fish/crab/shrimp/water chestnut/lotus tuber)
Human
Health
Accidents/
Occupatinoal
Risks
Climate
Change
Land Use and
Land Cover
Changes
Agricultural
Practives
Man-Animal
Conflict
Solid Waste
Chemicals
and
Radiation
Inadequate
Water and
Sanitation
Pollution
Fig. 5.8 Major environmental factors that affect human health
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