title: Impact of climate change on waterborne diseases.
abstract: Change in climate and water cycle will challenge water availability but it will also increase the exposure to unsafe water.  Floods, droughts, heavy storms, changes in rain pattern, increase of temperature and sea level, they all show an increasing  trend worldwide and will affect biological, physical and chemical components of water through different paths thus enhancing the  risk of waterborne diseases. This paper is intended, through reviewing the available literature, to highlight environmental  changes and critical situations caused by floods, drought and warmer temperature that will lead to an increase of exposure to water  related pathogens, chemical hazards and cyanotoxins. The final aim is provide knowledge-based elements for more focused adaptation  measures.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Ambiente e Connessa Prevenzione Primaria, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Enzo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Funari
authors.forename: Maura
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Manganelli
authors.forename: Luciana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sinisi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D057231:Climate Change / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000458:Cyanobacteria; D055864:Droughts; D057232:Global Warming; D006801:Humans; D014871:Water Microbiology; D014877:Water Pollution, Chemical / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014881:Water Supply; D014887:Weather