The following cdc is written in regard to zika, mosquitoes, and standing water. I found it was helpful for background knowledge, but also for targeting sanitation problems and what systems could be built to distribute safe water. https://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2016/03/zikaandwater/

• Some of the most important points:
  • Open Containers with standing water need to be scrubbed at least weekly as mosquitoes’ larvae will attach to the sides of the dishes, they can survive without water around them for up to 8 months, and they will hatch in standing water and mature into a mosquito in the course of a week. As a result, just emptying the water will not stop the larvae from hatching and maturing and later infecting inhabitants with dengue, in the case of Yemen.
  • What papers mean by distribution of safe water:
    • If community-wide distribution systems are built, pluming systems, then it decreases the need to store water close to the home and around their homes. Thus decreasing the number of mosquitoes as water is not being stored near areas where people live.
  • Sanitation
    • When water is contaminated with organic matter it increase the amount of mosquito larvae and if it will increase. Sanitation depts. And wastewater treatment plants remove the organic waste, treating water with chlorine and other disinfectants which can decrease mosquito presence.
    • WASH protocol is critical to promote health.
• https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/resources/vectorcontrolsheetdengue.pdf
• Semi-helpful:
  • https://www.bluewaterbaltimore.org/blog/how-to-keep-your-rain-barrels-free-of-mosquitoes/

• One of the potential problems that my group has hypothesized is the matter of indoor air pollution and it’s potential correlation with mosquitoes. Domestic use of biomass fuels increases the amount of indoor air pollution in a household and structure, it also increases the heat of the structure. As a result, we hypothesized that the warmer climate in the house would attract mosquitoes, which thus increases the potential of any inhabitants to be infected with dengue. However, the article written by Biran, Smith, Lines, Ensink, and Cameron focuses on repellent effect of smoke on mosquitoes, specifically carrying malaria. Although this article regard malaria-infected mosquitoes. It can still be used to display the possibility of the indoor air pollution actually decreasing the risk of being stung by mosquitoes as the smoke, and later smog, that is in the house actually acts as a natural repellent to mosquitoes. In fact, the article also reviews literature speaking of “house ventilation and mosquito entry” and shows that “ [an] increased indoor mosquito density was noted”.
• Although the smoke may act as a natural repellent to the mosquitoes, this does not discredit or minimize the health concerns created by indoor air pollution.
• Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17888474