Water Scarcity & Health in Urban Africa

Water is the cornerstone of public health. Yet many people living in Africa's cities face serious challenges obtaining an adequate supply of clean water. This situation, which poses significant public health concerns, promises only to grow in magnitude in the coming years as rapid urbanization and climate change meet head-on to further constrain urban water provision. This essay explores the relationship between water supply and health in urban Africa through the lens of water scarcity and health as political relationships as much as environmental or technical phenomena. By bringing infectious diseases like cholera and chronic ailments like kidney disease into the same frame of analysis, this essay also directs attention beyond the overwhelming public health focus on microbial contamination to emergent forms of water-related illness and injury that proceed unchecked

Agriculture · Cornerstone · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Politics · Public health · Scarcity · Urbanization · Water scarcity · Water supply · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Environmental Engineering · Environmental Science · Law · Medicine

• Gender inequality, water rights and policy implications

  Open Access•Nadia Khadam, Nadia Bukhtawer et al.•Cogent Social Sciences•2024

  Incluir item

• Impact of Urbanization on Health and Well-Being in Ghana. Status of Research, Intervention Strategies and Future Directions

  Open Access•Doris Akosua Tay, Reginald Ocansey et al.•Frontiers in Public Health•2022

  Incluir item

• System-wide approaches to mitigate environmental and health impacts of water contamination

  Open Access•Tula M Ngasala, Susan J Masten et al.•Water Policy•2022

  Incluir item

• Water fetching and musculoskeletal health across the life-course in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Open Access•Soren Meeuwisse, Susan J Elliott et al.•PLOS Global Public Health•2024

  Incluir item