And new developments have exacerbated water shortages in the largely arid region, environmentalists say.
In addition, automobile-oriented developments have exacerbated this phenomenon by stimulating city expansion towards invaluable natural and rural areas.
This week's developments have exacerbated an already politically chaotic period for Guatemala as it speeds toward elections for the presidency and lower offices that have long been scheduled for this Sunday.
Prolonged procrastination by governments over the retention or development of containment facilities has exacerbated the problem, hindering the long-term global capacity to react effectively to infectious disease emergence.
Piketty's empirical study negates the income distribution theory of neoclassical economics dominated by the Anglo-Saxon school and shows that the development of the market economy has exacerbated -- instead of reduced -- inequality.
Adding injury to insult, the ongoing savagery and bloody civil war in Syria has exacerbated these developments.
The road has attracted developments along former industrial land to the west of the town, including a large Asda supermarket, although it has exacerbated the decline of the retail outlets in the town centre.
Competition has exacerbated the issue.
Vladimir Putin has exacerbated this crisis.
Advertising has exacerbated the problem, she says.
The Great Recession has exacerbated this divergence.
