IRRIGATION CANAL CAUSED THE SPREAD OF MALARIA - INDIA

Malaria epidemics in the Indian subcontinent in the last century have been linked to indiscriminate canal building projects during the British rule in India. Study based on the meteorological (since 1870s), irrigation and medical reports suggested that third of the deaths at that time were caused by “malarious” fevers. The study revealed that variations in the transmission, incidence and prevalence of malaria were closely tied to the different deltaic environments of the Bengal and Indus basins and to the short-sightedness of many irrigation related engineering schemes.
4 May
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