- Data by the Central Bureau of Health Intelligence (CBHI) and ministry of health and family welfare indicated that 2,439 persons died in India in 2018 due to water borne diseases – cholera, acute diarrhea, typhoid and viral hepatitis
- A team of researchers at IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) has prepared surface-engineered particles (SEP) to arrest bacteria from microbe contaminated water