Data that are available indicate a range of urban health hazards and associated health risks: substandard housing, crowding, air pollution, insufficient or contaminated drinking water, inadequate sanitation and solid waste disposal services, vector-borne diseases, industrial waste, increased motor vehicle traffic, stress associated with poverty and unemployment, among others.
The so-called marketization reform expected to address the increase of several water problems (water shortage, insufficient infrastructure, water pollution, etc).
This situation is expected to worsen in developing countries, where monitoring and control policies are insufficient to mitigate coastal pollution (Wingqvist et al. 2012).
One of the main reasons for not achieving the target of water quality management is pointed out as to take insufficient measures toward diffuse pollution, particularly in the control of stormwater discharge.
Half of cases are due to infections with others caused by allergen, air pollution, or insufficient or inappropriate medication use.
It isn't hard to see why Seoul has taken this step: like many cities, it is struggling with overpopulation, pollution, resource constraints, insufficient transportation and housing shortages.
But a study released on Monday has found that there is insufficient data to conclude that pollution from burn pits in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan could cause long-term health problems in troops.
This report focused on hypotheses derived from a computer model of the interaction of various global socioeconomic trends; it projected a Malthusian vision in which the collapse of world order would result if population growth, industrial expansion, and increased pollution, combined with insufficient food production and the depletion of natural resources, were to continue at current rates.
Although this ecological evidence is insufficient to conclude that air pollution is the causal agent, other lines of evidence support this claim.
The official added that efforts to fight the pollution are undermined by insufficient funds and the division of responsibility between different municipal governments, as well as the state and federal level water and environmental bodies.
