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Epidemics in general and dengue in particular surcharge the health services and the economy. However, the fighting actions are circumscribed to the health sector despite the known positive economic impacts that the investments in water supply and sanitation services (WSS) may cause on society and public health. Besides the fact that urban WSS infrastructure is closely linked to disease prevention, in Brazil, the user's perception and demand are very few and many institutional aspects, like the integration between local WSS, health, environment, and development of city councils, need to be improved and better aligned. In this way, disease control and vector density reduction remain challenges to be overcome. This article addresses the need for greater institutionalization of urban WSS relating them to health aspects from official data. It concludes that the negative impacts of lacking universal access to WSS on dengue and other mosquito diseases are dispersed in all cities, regions, and populations regardless of their degree of development. Furthermore, contrary to what is normally emphasized, the analysis carried out shows that the lack of urban stormwater management systems may be an important component of WSS in preventing the proliferation of dengue disease. Plain Language Summary: From the outbreak of COVID‐19, the importance of public health services has been highlighted. However, there are many other diseases that deserve attention as those that arise from the presence of mosquitoes and that are directly related to climate and its changes. This study seeks to correlate data, in Brazil Dengue epidemics with the existing urban infrastructure, especially those related to water supply and sanitation service (WSS), because their absence or insufficiency, and incompleteness propitiates the emergence and proliferation of mosquitoes. The conclusion is that in all urban areas, rich or poor, the problem exists and correlates with the WSS infrastructures. The subject deserves further study and verification in detail of the existing and missing infrastructure and its correlation with the incidence rates of Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika diseases. Key Points: Aedes vector‐based diseases, urban water Infrastructure, and socio‐economic variables were analyzed across comparable territories in BrazilAedes vector‐based disease cases in urban areas are correlated with water supply irregularity and total urban population at water riskAnalysis per climate and population density allow to perceive the impact of faulty drainage services in Aedes vector‐based diseases [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Using data from the Damage Assessment Reports from the Civil Defence, the current study investigates the relationship between the damage caused by natural disasters and local development at the municipality level in Ceará state, Brazil. The results show that a better urban and water supply infrastructure, a lower population density, and a higher proportion of own revenues relative to total revenues are associated with smaller disaster damage. However, economic development in terms of GDP per capita exhibits a convex relationship with the impact of natural disasters across municipalities, reflecting the potential decreasing returns of preventive investments due to the highly hazardous environment that involves municipalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The complexity of water management requires an explanatory framework that is able to capture the multidimensionality of the relations between nature and society increasingly mediated by the state. The evolution of water problems in the Baixada Fluminense, a wetland area situated to the north of Rio de Janeiro, provides a paradigmatic example of how water management becomes incorporated into the fluid politics between state, nature and society. The local experience is examined by making use of the strategic-relational approach (after Bob Jessop) expanded to urban political ecology. The concept of 'trialectics' is proposed as an ontological representation of the interconnections between the state apparatus, class-based relations and the socionatural elements of the water cycle. The empirical results show that, in a situation of precarious water supply, regular flooding and severe river degradation, state interventions have tended to favour certain groups and areas, which only intensifies the politicisation of water management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]