Definition of "water-borne" []

• Alternative spelling of waterborne. (adjective)

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• "While the toilets provide much-needed sanitation infrastructure to tackle water-borne diseases, the leading cause of death in Haiti, they also address what Sasha calls "a dignity issue.""
• "They warn conditions both in Dollo and in the huge, overcrowded Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya are ripe for epidemics of measles, water-borne and other diseases."
• "They say water-borne oil residue from pumping operations is being stored in unprotected pits and is contaminating local water supplies."