What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910

Troesken, Werner; Tynan, Nicola; Yang, Yuanxiaoyue Artemis

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101402

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“…While acknowledging the transformative societal benefits achieved through centralized water systems (Anderson et al, 2022; Beach, 2022; Salzman, 2017; Troesken et al, 2021), we must also promote alternatives to centralized water provision and sanitation. The benefits of centralized water systems have been incomplete and uneven, whether for those living on the “last mile,” in small towns and remote areas, or excluded or segregated communities across the globe (Cheng, 2015; Clark, 2018; Deitz & Meehan, 2019; Glade & Ray, 2022; Jepson, 2014; Jepson & Brown, 2014; Meehan, Jepson, et al, 2020; Rodina & Harris, 2016; Vandewalle & Jepson, 2015; Wells et al, 2022).…”

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MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era

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Centralized water infrastructure has, over the last century, brought safe and reliable drinking water to much of the world. But climate change, combined with aging and underfunded infrastructure, is increasingly testing the limits of—and reversing gains made by—this approach. To address these growing strains and gaps, we must assess and advance alternatives to centralized water provision and sanitation. The water literature is rife with examples of systems that are neither centralized nor networked, yet meet water needs of local communities in important ways, including: informal and hybrid water systems, decentralized water provision, community‐based water management, small drinking water systems, point‐of‐use treatment, small‐scale water vendors, and packaged water. Our work builds on these literatures by proposing a convergence approach that can integrate and explore the benefits and challenges of modular, adaptive, and decentralized (“MAD”) water provision and sanitation, often foregrounding important advances in engineering technology. We further provide frameworks to evaluate justice, economic feasibility, governance, human health, and environmental sustainability as key parameters of MAD water system performance.This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Water, Health, and Sanitation Human Water > Water Governance Engineering Water > Sustainable Engineering of Water

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“…See, for example, the more recent studies byAlsan and Goldin (2019),Chapman (2019), de Looper et al (2019;Floris and Kaspar Staub (2019),Harris and Helgertz (2019),Harris and Hinde (2019),Helgertz and Önnerfors (2019), Peltola and Saaritsa (2019), Gallardo-Albarrán (2020), Raftakis (2021),Troesken et al (2021).…”

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The urban–rural height gap: evidence from late nineteenth-century Catalonia

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Ramon-Muñoz

2023

Cliometrica

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This paper aims to establish whether there was a gap in biological living standards between urban and rural areas in late nineteenth-century Catalonia, and if so, to determine its extent. The study makes use of a large new dataset based on military records for the cohort of males born in the year 1890 and enlisted in the year 1911. By combining individual heights with information at municipal level, we conclude that the 1890 cohort of conscripts living in rural areas were shorter than those that resided in towns and cities with populations of more than 20,000 people. We also hypothesise about the reasons why urban dwellers in late nineteenth-century Catalonia were taller than their rural counterparts by considering the potential role of rural–urban migration, improvements in public sanitation and health care, and progresses in the quantity and quality of food availability for urban dwellers.

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“…To no small extent, Troesken et al. advance historians’ understanding of the relationship between water infrastructure and mortality.…”

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Review of periodical literature for 2021

Varian

2022

The Economic History Review

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Occasionally, several articles published in the same year converge upon a quite specific theme. Sometimes, the convergence may be attributed to newly available data, for example, from population censuses, or to a significant anniversary, for example, the centenary of the First World War. Other times, it may arise from an ambitious programme of research having come to fruition. Yet, especially for the heavily studied period from 1850 to 1945, there are occasions when the clustering of articles around a closely circumscribed theme happens, seemingly, by chance. These serendipitous convergences afford readers of economic and social history a more comprehensive treatment of topics than would have been expected. One of the purposes of this review (and one of the joys of the reviewer) is to bring these convergences to the attention of economic and social historians.In 2021, no less than five articles converged, serendipitously, on the topic of British emigration to Australasia. These articles spanned six authors and three journals, viz. Australian Economic History Review, Historical Research, and Social History of Medicine. Relying on shipping records, Ward estimates that, during the period from 1852 to 1915, approximately 20 per cent of British emigrants to the colony of Victoria eventually returned to Britain. The returning migrants, who were mostly women, were strongly influenced by social networks. Ward's article includes both quantitative analysis and biographical vignettes of returning migrants. One of these migrants was Annie Martlew, who emigrated from Liverpool to Melbourne in 1884, only to return two decades later as a widow with five young children, motivated by the existence of a stronger support network in Britain. Social networks are a potential explanation for a paradox identified by Hatton in his study of emigration from the United Kingdom to the Anglosphere during the late nineteenth century. Surprisingly, he finds that emigrants to Australia and New Zealand were, on average, more skilled than emigrants to Canada and the United States, despite wages exhibiting a higher skill premium in North America. Hatton speculates that the lower skill content of emigrants from the United Kingdom-importantly, including Ireland-to the United States (vis-à-vis migrants to Australasia) might be due to the presence of greater networks of previous migrants there. Leaving aside the skill content of migrants, the sheer number of migrants to Australasia was positively influenced byThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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What are the health benefits of a constant water supply? Evidence from London, 1860–1910

Abstract: played a guiding role on this paper until his death in September 2018. To honor his work and his memory, we have retained him as a co-author.

Cited by 8 publications

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MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era

MAD water: Integrating modular, adaptive, and decentralized approaches for water security in the climate change era

The urban–rural height gap: evidence from late nineteenth-century Catalonia

Review of periodical literature for 2021

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