With the emergence of vector-borne diseases, population pressure and unhealthy living conditions, a very focussed approach and long-term planning is needed in disease control. If all human-made changes and pressure of unscientific exploitation of natural resources are not halted, the planet Earth will not remain a habitable place. The case of malaria is an example of how excessive reliance on insecticides has damaged the environment and harmed public health. Malaria has returned. Ironically, ddt the so-called panacea, instead of eradicating malaria successfully eradicated malariologists, leaving blunted tools of the malaria eradication era in our armament. Malaria has had the last laugh or rather a lasting laugh.

Re-visiting the earlier works on malaria control before the arrival of ddt one finds a close link between malaria control and the engineering. Water management was the main strategy of malaria control. This was practiced almost throughout the world