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Water is the most precious global commodity with its many uses for drinking, recreation, sanitation, hygiene, agriculture, and industry.
Want to make sure your drinking water is safe? Are you wondering how your community's water system is graded? Are you a swimmer wanting to know more about the health benefits and risks of swimming? Do you want to know more about the challenges of delivering safe water in the developing world? Looking for the latest water-related surveillance data or contaminant information? Are you a first responder looking for toolkits to respond to water-related outbreaks and emergencies? Answers to your water-related questions can be found within our pages, below.
Healthy Water Topics
- Drinking Water
- Public Water Systems
- Private Water Systems
- Water Fluoridation
- Camping, Hiking, Travel
- Global Water, Sanitation, & Hygiene (WASH)
- Community Systems
- Household Treatment & Storage
- Sanitation and Hygiene
- Travelers’ Health
- Water-related Emergencies & Outbreaks
- Safe Water
- Wastewater
- Hygiene
- Public Health Toolkits
- Diseases, Contaminants, & Injuries
- Alphabetical
- By Primary Symptom
- By Type of Disease/Contaminant/Injury
- Healthy Swimming / Recreational Water
- Pools and Spas
- Oceans/Lakes/Rivers
- Injury and Skin Cancer
- Recreational Water Illnesses
- Other Uses of Water
- Agricultural
- Industrial
- Medical
- Water-related Data & Statistics
- Waterborne Outbreaks
- Health Data
- Environmental Tracking
- Biomonitoring
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