Clean water is a key to consider when preventing the transmission of a range of bacterial, viral and parasitic infections that have particularly negative effects on pregnant women and their unborn babies.
Mainly, water has a mental and emotional impact on the development of every pregnancy. Maternal hydration allows both mother and fetus to react to changes in the body. These changes keep conditions such as temperature in balance.
Drinking much water influences the amniotic fluid volume, fetal well-being, and removes toxic products. Insufficiency of clean water and living in environment with dirty stagnant water are known to lead to largely preventable water–related diseases that can lead to severe impact adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Those diseases namely: malaria, typhoid, chronic hookworm infestations like ankylostomiasis, dysentery, cholera, giardiasis, amoebiasis, etc., may result in spontaneous abortion, fetal death, maternal complications and maternal death, if appropriate anti-biotic treatment is not administered.
-Maternal Health Task Force
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