Pretty easy(heroic estimate) to check this, You could link a few sets of time bounded landsat images of an affected area to see if the land use change correlat

Pretty easy(heroic estimate) to check this, You could link a few sets of time bounded landsat images of an affected area to see if the land use change correlates with the rise in this problem. Depending on the granularity of the data you could go pretty deep with something like quickbird images as well. Though I'm not sure how long they have been running off hand.