Abstract

It is vital to have clean water for a healthy lifestyle. Drinking polluted and dirty water causes millions of people to perish. This study's goal was to investigate the effects of tainted water on Rahim Yar Khan's population's health. Rahim Yar Khan's water management and monitoring are subpar, and the city's subsurface water is unfit for drinking because high concentrations of calcium, magnesium, chloride, hardness, and heavy metal are present. The data's empirical component was gathered from hundred replyers in Rahim Yar Khan. The interview schedule was the tool utilized in this study's with the help of purposive sampling for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were applied to the data analysis. This study examined public perceptions of the negative health effects after consuming contaminated water and the results shows that high level of diseases are increasing in that selected area just because of drinking contaminated water, some people seemed concerned because of poor hygiene measures for drinking water. The results of this study shows high level of health risk in that selected area for human health.

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