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Give scientific reasons for:

One should drink boiled water during epidemics.

During epidemics there is increase in contamination of water. If we boil the water, most of the germs and microbes get killed. If we drink the unboiled water containing the germs we will suffer from many infectious diseases. In order to avoid such epidemic diseases like cholera, typhoid, diarrhea etc we should drink boiled water during epidemics.


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