IP International Journal of Comprehensive and Advanced Pharmacology 2021;6(4):152–157 Content available at: https://www.ipinnovative.com/open-access-journals IP International Journal of Comprehensive and Advanced Pharmacology Journal homepage: https://www.ijcap.in/ Review Article Traditional plant and herbs used in rural area for prevention of disease caused by water pollution Pankaj Kashyap 1 , Saraswati Prasad Mishra 2 , Shweta Dutta 1 , Rajni Yadav 3 , Koushlesh Mishra 4 , Anil Kumar Sahu 1 , Anil Kumar Sahu 1, * 1 Royal College of Pharmacy, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India 2 RITEE College of Pharmacy, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India 3 Kalinga University Raipur, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India 4 Raigarh College of Pharmacy, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh, India ARTICLE INFO Article history: Received 27-11-2021 Accepted 04-12-2021 Available online 21-12-2021 Keywords: Consumable water Water pollution water borne disease rural area diarrhea ABSTRACT Water being the most vital requirement for the survival of the life in the planet becomes even more vital when its demand increases due to increase in population as well as due to scarcity of consumable water. This chapter explains about water pollution and the causes of it. It also elaborates about type of water pollution and water borne diseases like diarrhea, cancer, hepatitis and many more that affects the world immensely. Furthermore, it explains about different types of herbs and plants that is used by people of rural area to tackle the problem of water pollution and effectively manage the diseases caused by the same. Examples of herb or plant derived substances utilized for water borne diseases include malvaceae and amaranthaceae, to name a few. This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. For reprints contact: reprint@ipinnovative.com 1. Introduction Existence of life in this planet depends on three boons that nature has bestowed on us. The three boons are air, soil and water. Among these three water is most vital because it is basis of origination of life. As water is one of the most vital entity for survival, its demand has rose to many fold because of the increase in the population around the world. It has become an environmental issue, however there was no serious steps taken towards it till 1972 when at U.N. Conference that was held at Stockholm concepts such as sustainability, environment, and capacity of earth were introduced to common people and after that at world stage policies were made with having environment as a central theme. 1 Although planet earth has 71% water in it but out of this 71% only 2% can be used for consumption * Corresponding author. E-mail address: anil2484@gmail.com (A. K. Sahu). remaining 98% are found in water body like sea. Moreover from the consumable 2%, 1.6% are in the form of ice and glaciers in the poles. In addition to this only 0.36% are underground water therefore only around 0.036% water are accessible and are found as lakes or rivers. 2 Water follows a cycle path to remain in this planet. It evaporates then precipitates and finally runoff to get to the sea. As demand of water as increased many fold, some of the observers have predicted that by the year 2025 water will be tackling a situation called as water crisis. 3 Further according to a report of November 2009, it was suggested that in all the developing nation the water demand will be 50% then its supply by the year 2030. 4 In addition to the increase water demand other major reason of concern in this context is that the consumable water is getting contaminated by the contaminants and toxins releasing from the industries. Water has some threshold to which it should not get contaminated otherwise it will not be https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijcaap.2021.027 2581-5555/© 2021 Innovative Publication, All rights reserved. 152