Thirsty Cities: Urban Environments and Water Supply in Latin America
- ISBN-10
- 1552501086
- ISBN-13
- 9781552501085
- Series
- Thirsty Cities
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 177
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- IDRC
- Author
- Danilo J. Anton
Description
Many cities in Latin America and the Caribbean are experiencing a water crisis as sources become exhausted or degraded. Urbanization, deteriorating infrastructures with a lack of funds for repairs, and inadequate polices are conspiring to cause water shortages. People are becoming concentrated in megacities, such as Mexico City with a population of almost 23 million, that have outgrown their water-supply systems. Urban areas are increasingly incapable of supplying water and sewer systems for their populations. By the year 2020, more than 500 million inhabitants of Latin America (two-thirds of.
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