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This 3 page paper discusses why urbanization increases environmental hazards in the city, and why these hazards impact the poor in particular. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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better. This paper discusses why urbanization increases environmental hazards in the city, and why these hazards impact the poor in particular. Discussion Some of the fastest growing cities on earth
are in the Third World, and when growth occurs there, the population tends to create "megalopolises," rather than small or medium sized cities (Ezcurra and Mazari-Hiriart, 1996, p. 6). The
demand that these enormous cities place on developing countries is enormous and frequently cannot be met (Ezcurra and Mazari-Hiriart, 1996, p. 6). "Resource shortages are exacerbated by ever-increasing demands
for services that need to be supplied at a rate that often exceeds economic growth. Air and water quality, environmentally related health problems, water, food, and energy supply, and the
risk of large-scale regional solid and liquid waste contamination are all important problems faced by the megalopolis" (Ezcurra and Mazari-Hiriart, 1996, p. 6). In Mexico City, the problems are already
severe and getting worse: "the basin [in which the city lies] will experience large-scale water shortages sometime in the next 30 years" (Ezcurra and Mazari-Hiriart, 1996, p. 6). The water
quality "is already below drinking standards in some areas" and "[D]egrading water quality will be a major health concern in the next decades" (Ezcurra and Mazari-Hiriart, 1996, p. 6). Air
quality is poor as well, and the large number of cars coming into the region makes it unlikely that this will improve (Ezcurra and Mazari-Hiriart, 1996). In addition, nearly half
"of all Mexican industries are located in the basin" (Ezcurra and Mazari-Hiriart, 1996, p. 6). This means that its very likely there will be even more demands for natural resources
than there are at present, "as well as growing amounts of liquid and solid waste for which there are no adequate treatment and disposal systems" (Ezcurra and Mazari-Hiriart, 1996, p.
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