ABSTRACT
The previous chapters document historical examples and case studies throughout the Tropics where development of water projects caused outbreaks of lethal and widespread diseases among the populations who were supposed to benefit from the projects. Furthermore, attempts at prediction and remediation of these negative health and environmental impacts generally failed. The failures had multiple causes, one being the difficulty in predicting the impacts, and another being the scarcity of scientists and planners capable of predicting and managing them. This unsatisfactory situation is getting worse. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
