Which disease spreads mainly through polluted water?
Cholera
Cholera is a waterborne disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, which spreads mainly through water contaminated with faecal matter. Malaria spreads through mosquito bites, tuberculosis through air, and asthma is not an infectious disease.
Important Questions from Environment
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recently categorized the Red Sanders (Red Sandalwood) into
How many Ramsar conservation have been enlisted from India so far? (as of 2019)
In 2019, Harsh Vardhan, the union minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change launched the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP). On which day was ICAP released?
The Mission of the Ramsar Convention is to conserve __________.
In June 2022, the Supreme Court directed that every protected forest, national park and wildlife sanctuary across the country should have a mandatory eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of a minimum ______ starting from their demarcated boundaries.
