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Environmental Problems
All cities experience environmental problems to a lesser or greater degree, usually causing great obstruction to the developers that attempt to improve the urban environment. The brown agenda that obstructs this includes these issues:
* Waste
* Dereliction
* Air pollution
* Noise
* Water supply
* Environmental health
* Urban ecosystems
Waste products and waste disposal
* Solids from paper, packaging and toxic waste increase as the numbers and affluence increase
* Liquid sewage and industrial waste both rise exponentially
* Sewage control in Calcutta, India-during the monsoon season sewage can be seen pouring down the side of the street where the drains are insufficient to cope.
* Contamination and health hazards from poor systems of disposal, e.g. rat infestation and waterborne diseases
* An example of an MEDC problem of waste disposal is in the 'Bronx', south of New-York-rubbish continually clutters the streets, just like in the squatter settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Solutions:
Solutions to any problem are made more difficult by the lack of available resources and the sheer scale of the
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