Cholera and the age of the water barons

By Bill Marsden

Cholera turned out to be a chronicle of death foretold by blind ideology

Excerpts from this story referencing "David Hemson":

"… e full cost of their water "was the direct cause of the cholera epidemic," David Hemson, a social scientist sent by the government to investigate the outbreak, sa …"

Metered to death

By Jacques Pauw

How a water experiment in South Africa caused riots and a cholera epidemic

Excerpts from this story referencing "David Hemson":

"… original sources of water, polluted streams and rivers and the like," said David Hemson of South Africa's Human Sciences Research Council, Africa's largest a …"

"… could have been used to address the crisis, according to Edward Cottle and David Hemson. But the municipal government remained "impassive" in the wake of the outb …"