The impact of large and small dams on malaria transmission in four basins in Africa

S. Kibret, Matthew McCartney, Jonathan Lautze, Luxon Nhamo and G. Yan

Papers published in Journals (Open Access), 2021, 11:13355.

Abstract: Expansion of various types of water infrastructure is critical to water security in Africa. To date, analysis of adverse disease impacts has focused mainly on large dams. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of both small and large dams on malaria in four river basins in sub-Saharan Africa (i.e., the Limpopo, Omo-Turkana, Volta and Zambezi river basins). The European Commission’s Joint Research Center (JRC) Yearly Water Classification History v1.0 data set was used to identify water bodies in each of the basins. Annual malaria incidence data were obtained from the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) database for the years 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015. A total of 4907 small dams and 258 large dams in the four basins, with 14.7million people living close (

Keywords: Malaria; Disease transmission; Dams; River basins; Vector-borne diseases; Risk; Water reservoirs; Infrastructure; Population density (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92924-3

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