Urbanization is taking place in all over the world; the villagers are migrating towards cities for employment. As per World Health Organization (WHO), the urban population of the world accounted for 34% in 1960 and increased to 54% in 2014. Rapid migration from villages had created so many challenges to the local Government such as accommodation, education, drinking water, electricity, transportation, sanitation and communication facilities. Local Governments have not sufficient revenue to create infrastructure facilities in the cities causing poor services, serious environmental problems and widespread poverty. The Consequence of Government failure are uncontrollable traffic, air and water pollution, loss of agricultural land including parks and open fields, poor maintenance of cities.
This
urbanization has given birth to the pollution in the cities which is increasing
day by day. In several cities the pollution has increased at the alarming rate,
causing damage to the human and animals. Urbanization
is growing at a faster rate in developing countries than developed countries
and accordingly health problems are increasing in developing countries. The
urbanization in India is faster than rest of the world; therefore, Indian
cities are highly polluted in the world. Effects of pollution are very tragic,
causing to deaths, increasing dangerous diseases and so many other problems to
human. Air pollution, water pollution and soil contamination have an effect on
human health and animals.
Looking
to the consequences of pollution on human health, the time has come to fight
with pollution. Therefore, combined effort and deep thinking is required for
safeguard of the human health. Several questions also arise in the mind to meet
the consequences of pollution. How the pollution effecting human? How to content
pollution with urbanization? What remedial measures and precautions must be
taken to reduce impact of pollution?
