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Why should we ensure the safety of drinking water?

Water is an elementary human need. Water is connecting to every possible form of life on earth. Each person on this planet requires at least 10 liters of safe, clean and accessible water in a day for drinking.  Safe drinking water can be defined as water that does not have any significant risk present in it for health over a long period of consumption. Safe water not necessarily is pure, it may have some impurities such as some trail of salts like calcium, magnesium, carbonates and others present in it which is injuries to health.  Millions of people die every year because of no access to safe drinking water to many water-related issues like diarrhea cholera, malaria, hepatitis and so on. There are basic norm, standards and criterion for safe drinking water.  Proper examination is necessary to be done to ensure that water does not have any sort of harmful chemicals or substances and is perfectly fit for drinking and consumption. In any case, if the water contains any slightest amount o