Problems in LEDC places.

1. Problems in LEDC places. Kate Harrison Myp 2 Humanities. 01/02/11.

2. China/ electricity. For example in Beijing (China) where millions of the poor people cook with coal. • Electricity and power supplies. people in shanty towns use existing power. air pollution. Others cook with wood, oil or coal. Picture fromCornisimiages. Picture from Life.com

3. Thailand. Bangkok (Thailand) has huge congestion problems, 1000 deaths a year from accidents • Traffic is a major problem in all large cities. Picture fromblogspot. Picture fromtreehugger. Air pollution An average speed of less than 10 mph- and it has had a 24- hour traffic jam!

4. Shelter. • Everyone needs a shelter. Millions of people around the world are living in poor quality housing or homemade shelters Picture fromvedainformatics.com Picture from tents4peace.com Ill health millions of people suffer from damp conditions, disease, unclean water and a lack of sewage systems

5. Poverty. • Poverty is the biggest problem of all, and the biggest killer. Picture from lightgalleries.net Money can buy food, clean water and medicine, which will enable people to survive even in poor quality living conditions. Picture from mariosign.com

6. Pollution • Pollution comes from vehicles, industrial processes, cooking and heating. The rapid increase in the number of vehicles in Mexico City is putting children at risk. Half the people in Calcutta (India) have some sort of respiratory problem. Picture from blogspot.com Picture from coe.mse.ac.in Pollution is everywhere- in the air, in the water, and on the land.

7. Sewerage Systems. Development schemes struggle to keep up. • Sewerage systems are needed to deal with human waste, but many of these systems fail to keep up with the rapidly expanding cities. Picture from livingbywater.com Where they do exist, as in Cairo (Egypt) or Bangkok (Thailand), they become overburdened as the population increases. Picture from vdh.state.va.us Many cities have only open sewers or pits.

8. Drugs, Gangs and violence. • Drugs, gangs and violence are part of everyday life in many shanty settlements. Often as in some towns in Brazil, the shanties are under the control of drug gangs. Picture from truthmove.org The police may or may not have control of squatter settlements, and keeping control in these areas may lead to violence Picture from cbc.ca Picture from therazor.org

9. Education and Heath. • Education and health provision are two of the most important items for city planners to manage. Even when children get a primary school education, as most children do, in Sao Paulo (Brazil) those from the towns are more likely to drop out when they are still very young and not move into paid employment Image from media.the state.com

10. Overcrowding. • Overcrowding is a problem in most cities, but especially affects the poorest people. Image from www.all-about-india.com Image from apublicdefender.com Shanty towns and squatter settlements are the most densely populated parts of any LEDC city.

11. RubbishOverload. Rubbish collection is often unregulated and haphazard. Some very poor people can make money from other people’s rubbish by recycling items thrown into the city’s rubbish tips. Image from flickr.com

12. CLEAN drinking water. • Access to clean drinking water varies across the world, the poorest people have the least reliable supplies, and they may have to buy it at high prices. Image from kimandjackson.com Image from glabalaid.net wealthy areas tend to have better supplies. Image from zatacuba.org

13. Employment • Employment opportunities cannot keep up with the number of new arrivals in most LEDC cities. Image fromugandacrafts2000ltd.org Picture foundfrom tutor2u.net Making craft items, often for the tourist industry. Many people make a subsistence living by street trading, selling food and other services

14. Rubbish in Mexico city. Hectors worth of waste. 12 meters high. 12,500 tones worth of waste. Image from globalgiving.co.uk Mexico city has the 3rd biggest problem of rubbish in the world. Image from blogspot.com Image from faithandcare.edublogs.org The solution is to burn the waste but this can cause many different problems. Burning the waste will cause air born problems which could lead to cancer. Image from dalje.com

15. Water in Mexico City. 20 million people come in a day and they can’t provide enough water for everyone. Image from newimg.bbc.co.uk Picture from Commondreams.org Many people without water get given water in barrels, each barrel has 20 liters, this has to last at least a week for large families. In Mexico city there are many leaking pipes which means water is leaking away. Image from danielhernandez.typepad.com

16. Pollution in Mexico City. Picture from weirdlyodd.com Pollution in Mexico started in the 1990’s. they shut down many factories to try and stop the pollution but realized they were too late. Picture from .geography.hunter.cuny.edu They made the public transport places like subways and busses better and more convenient so that there are not as many cars driving at `once. Cars with a certain number plate wern’t aloud to drive on certain days. For example with a number 2 on the end would mean they wouldn't be aloud to drive on a Tuesday.

17. Communities in Mexico City. Steal electricity. Image from whitmer.wikis.birmingham.k12.mi.us There are many homes that are illegal if you stay in an illegal home without being asked to move then that land is now yours. Image from cdn.wn.com The houses are on step slopes because they are the few spaces left. This is bad because when it rains a lot it can wash away the house. Houses are made from anything they can find like strings and paper and cardboard. They don’t put there money into the housing until the land is yours.

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