Various factors are responsible for water scarcity in Comoro watersheds such as unfavorable topographical condition, rapid population growth and urbanization, poor knowledge, and lack of better water management practices.
The discussion group considered that current research shows that these risks have become a "new normal" of everyday life, with research revealing increasing hazard trends (for example, floods and droughts) and amplified impacts due to increased population exposure, rapid and unplanned urbanization, poor land use, climate change, vulnerable global supply chains, and economic activities.
Meanwhile, much can be learned from the existing evidence base and policy and programmatic responses in the area of large-scale population displacement (e.g., after humanitarian crisis and disaster), planned resettlement schemes, and urbanization (specifically settlement in urban poor areas in developing countries).
In developing countries, cities are experiencing rapid urbanization with increasing informality affecting urban poor to live in slums and squatters subject to eviction.
In Bangladesh, the health risks of unplanned urbanization are disproportionately shouldered by the urban poor.
At greatest risk are the urban poor because of factors associated with urbanization including changing diets, lifestyles, and occupational structure [ 50- 52].
Asia in particular will see events like Sandy grow more frequent — and with even greater extremes and losses — as the confluence of climate change and rapid urbanization generate heightened vulnerabilities, especially for the hundreds of millions of urban poor residents.
Urbanization encompasses several entities, including a high migration rate, industrialization, and urban poor.
The findings resonate with earlier studies (UN-Habitat 2011) that have shown that urbanization of poverty would increase unless the governance structure improve urban planning and management, and recognize the right of urban poor to improve their conditions and participate in the distribution of the benefits that the urbanization process has to offer.
With growing urbanization and globalization, the biggest burden of CVD will be among the urban poor in both high-income and LMICs.
While urbanization brings many social and economic opportunities for women, men, and families, the urban poor face a particularly challenging socio-physical environment, which can take a toll on their mental health [ 11, 13].
