For instructions to make ORS, see a health provider or the ORS sachet. Take your child to the health centre if the diarrhoea persists for more than a day or if the diarrhoea is severe. Remember that severe dehydration caused by diarrhoea can lead to death. Start treating your water immediately if you do not already do so. Diarrhoea is dangerous especially for children.
Safe water protects people from getting diarrhoea diseases such as cholera and dysentery.
Two methods that can make water safe to drink discussed in the second topic are Chlorin purification solution and boiling. The key message was to encourage people to treat all their water to ensure that it is safe to drink. We also highlighted that even water that looks clear and clean can be contaminated and needs to be treat to make it safe to drink. We also explained that water sourced in homes through the tap can be contaminated. We cited leaking pipes as one way of enabling contaminants find their way in the city council treated water and therefore making tap water contaminated.