Effects of Poor Potable Water Quality on the Health of Peasants

Majority of peasants population in the experimental rural districts were covered with centralized water supply and predominantly presence of decentralized and bottled water. Interviews were collected from the given respondents have been shown additional purification as the best possible way in order to improve potable water quality. According to the results of own research 42% peasants used boiling as the only way of purification method; 23.8% interviewing never use water-purifying filters; 27.9% peasants applied filters from time to time; 91.6% respondents weren't satisfying with filtering; 32% preferred others methods of water purification. We carried out medical and social analysis of the children state of health at the age of 14 y.o., by average annual indicators in the separate rural districts of Dnepropetrovsk region during 2007-2012 years according to the ICD-X Classification of diseases by the following indicators: average annual, intensive, extensive, growth rates of diseases.