Problems in LEDC places.

Kate HarrisonMyp 2

Humanities. 01/02/11.

China/ electricity.

• Electricity and power supplies.

people in shanty towns use

existing power.

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Others cook

with wood, oil

or coal.air pollution.

For example in Beijing (China) where millions of the poor people cook with coal.

Thailand. • Traffic is a major problem in all large cities. Bangkok

(Thailand) has huge congestion problems, 1000 deaths a year from accidents

An average speed of less than 10 mph- and it has had a 24- hour traffic jam!

Air pollution

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Shelter. • Everyone needs a shelter. Millions of

people around the world are living in poor quality housing or homemade shelters

millions of people suffer from damp conditions, disease, unclean water and a lack of sewage systems

Ill health

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Poverty.

• Poverty is the biggest problem of all, and the biggest killer.

Money can buy food, clean water and medicine, which will enable people to survive even in poor quality living conditions.

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Pollution • Pollution comes from vehicles, industrial

processes, cooking and heating. The rapid increase in the number of vehicles in Mexico City is putting children at risk.

Pollution is everywhere- in the air, in the water, and on the land.

Half the people in Calcutta (India) have some sort of respiratory problem.

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Sewerage Systems. • Sewerage systems are needed

to deal with human waste, but many of these systems fail to keep up with the rapidly expanding cities.

Where they do exist, as in Cairo (Egypt) or Bangkok (Thailand), they become overburdened as the population increases.

Development schemes struggle to keep up.

Many cities have only open sewers or pits.

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Drugs, Gangs and violence. • Drugs, gangs and violence

are part of everyday life in many shanty settlements. Often as in some

towns in Brazil, the shanties are under the control of drug gangs.

The police may or may not have control of squatter settlements, and keeping control in these areas may lead to violence

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Education and Heath. • Education and health

provision are two of the most important items for city planners to manage.

Even when children get a primary school education, as most children do,

in Sao Paulo (Brazil) those from the towns are more likely to drop out when they are still very young and not move into paid employment

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Overcrowding.

• Overcrowding is a problem in most cities, but especially affects the poorest people.

Shanty towns and squatter settlements are the most densely populated parts of any LEDC city.

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Rubbish Overload.

Rubbish collection is often unregulated and haphazard.

Some very poor people can make money from other people’s rubbish by recycling items thrown into the city’s rubbish tips.

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CLEAN drinking water. • Access to clean drinking water

varies across the world, the poorest people have the least reliable supplies, and they may have to buy it at high prices.

wealthy areas tend to have better supplies.

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Employment

• Employment opportunities cannot keep up with the number of new arrivals in most LEDC cities.

Many people make a subsistence living by street trading, selling food and other services

Making craft items, often for the tourist industry.

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Rubbish in Mexico city.

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Mexico city has the 3rd biggest problem of rubbish in the world.

12,500 tones worth of waste. 375 Hectors

worth of waste.

12 meters high.

The solution is to burn the waste but this can cause many different problems. Burning the waste will cause air born problems which could lead to cancer.

Water in Mexico City.

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20 million people come in a day and they can’t provide enough water for everyone.

Many people without water get given water in barrels, each barrel has 20 liters, this has to last at least a week for large families.

In Mexico city there are many leaking pipes which means water is leaking away.

Pollution in Mexico City.

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Pollution in Mexico started in the 1990’s. they shut down many factories to try and stop the pollution but realized they were too late. They made the public transport places like

subways and busses better and more convenient so that there are not as many cars driving at `once.

Cars with a certain number plate wern’t aloud to drive on certain days. For example with a number 2 on the end would mean they wouldn't be aloud to drive on a Tuesday.

Communities in Mexico City.

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There are many homes that are illegal if you stay in an illegal home without being asked to move then that land is now yours.

Houses are made from anything they can find like strings and paper and cardboard. They don’t put there money into the housing until the land is yours.

The houses are on step slopes because they are the few spaces left. This is bad because when it rains a lot it can wash away the house.

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