Un bien pour un mal... des améliorations sanitaires pernicieuses
Every hydraulic development project implies important changes and raises the question of water-borne diseases. The primary objective is to understand a water/health system which changes as it is observed. We therefore chose to work on the case of the major city of Chennai, the first to restructure i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
2006-12-01
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| Series: | Espace populations sociétés |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/eps/1477 |
| Summary: | Every hydraulic development project implies important changes and raises the question of water-borne diseases. The primary objective is to understand a water/health system which changes as it is observed. We therefore chose to work on the case of the major city of Chennai, the first to restructure its entire urban water system. The study is centred on three traceable diseases – O139 cholera, human leptospirosis and dengue fever – and the specific moments at which they appear. They are located at different points of the domestic water provision process (supply, evacuation, storage) and, above all, they reflect the events of the 1990s'. Beyond all that, these three diseases raise the question of the responsibilities of the various players and, indeed, of the epidemic risk itself. In fact, the ideal conditions for fresh outbreaks are to be found in the hydraulic strategies and sanitation improvements of the city of Chennai itself. |
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| ISSN: | 0755-7809 2104-3752 |