ENS 300 – Environment and Health Enter your name here Enter your topic here Spring 2018
Rietveld, Louis C., et al. "Improving health in cities through systems approaches for urban water management." Environmental Health 15.1 (2016): S31.
Schematic for the systems integration of water use and management in Maputo, Mozambique
The ways in which water and public health are integrated into the urban systems of four major cities are examined in this article. Each differs in their infrastructure, ranging from cities in the developing world (India, Mozambique) with large informal economic sectors and little central planning to a city with intensive centrally-planned water management (Austria). These cities also differ in their kinds of public health water issues often related to their particular histories and cultural norms. Food stalls are an avenue for water-borne disease in Kolkata, India, while the lack of adequate sewage infrastructure was the major concern in Surat, India. Making water scarcity and the need for safe reuse of water is a major challenge in Maputo, Mozambique. In Vienna, Austria disease is less of a health threat as is the physical hazards imposed by river flooding.
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