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Mega Cities
Our Hong Kong Bureau
31 DEC
Bombay records a population of over 20mn inhabitants today, a growth of over 50% over the last ten years. This phenomenon of "mega cities" is straining the capacity of local & national governments to provide even the most basic services to urban residents. An estimated 25 to 50% of urban inhabitants in developing countries live in impoverished slums & squatter settlements with little or no access to adequate water sanitation or refuse collection. In such situations both environmental quality & human health & well being are at risk.
The world�s urban population is currently growing at four times the rate of the rural population Urbanisation is rampant in the fast growing economies of the Asia-Pacific regions.At this rate of growth sociologists expect almost two thirds of the world population to be living in towns & cities by 2025.
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