The population of towns and cities is swelling rapidly through immigration, and urban centres draw vast amounts of water.
During the 10 years studied in the report, the population of towns and cities in the south grew by 11.3% – double the rate of towns elsewhere.
Here Harstad provides his hero with a sounding board for his views on the wave of legal and illegal immigrants who have doubled the population of towns like Battenberg, where the kosher meat plant is.
Last April, a murder, allegedly by an undocumented Haitian, in the town of Moca spurred a Dominican mob to cast the entire Haitian population out of town.
Because the Mongols used Christian auxiliaries in their armies Georgians and Armenians in particular they often spared the Christian populations of towns they conquered, while slaughtering the Muslims.
They are the invisible refugees, and their numbers have swollen the populations of towns like this one northwest of the capital, Islamabad, multiplying burdens on already sagging roads, schools, sewers and water supplies, and, not least, on their host families.
Entire villages would relocate south, usually by train, swelling the populations of towns like Biddeford, Me.; Southbridge, Mass.; and Woonsocket, R.I., whose populations by 1900 were more than 60 percent French Canadian.
The practice of segregating the Jewish populations of towns and cities into ghettos dates from the Middle Ages and lasted until the 19th and early 20th centuries in much of Europe.
They said changes to the electoral law meant the system was rigged in favour of rural indigenous Bedouin, who dominate the government and security forces, against the predominantly Palestinian populations of towns and cities, where opposition support is traditionally strongest.
The real fear is that the hardcore fighters will lose major battles, fade into the civilian populations of towns (just like the Taliban did) and continue a protracted insurgency.
