Effective Date: TITLE OF THE PROPOSE EXECUTIVE ORDER Purpose: Objectives: Process of Implementation: Duration/Span of Implementation Signature over Printed Name Date SignedServicesinkeongskiseasonGame exonanges mourous whoHave added julesandabid yodertoisedre the glyblendf towns and cities. Major Global Urbanization Problems and Issues opportunities. - 1. Overcrowding or Overpopulation Overcrowding is a situation where a lot of people accumulate in a rather limited space that is unable to accommodate them without succumbing to the pressures around it properly. As a result of urbanization, overcrowding is a persistent problem as a large number of people are consistently moving to urban areas on a I daily basis. This leads to cities growing in population and getting crammed when it gets beyond their capacity. When a city is at maximum or excess capacity, people tend to compete over the limited and scarce resources such as electricity, water, transport, and the main reason they make a move, employment. 2. Unemployment I Unemployment is another urbanization problem. What is I surprising is that a large percentage of young people who I are unemployed belong to well raised and educated | families. The job opportunities might be greater in urban areas and also pay more, but as the number of people continues to grow, the jobs become even harder to find and retain. Companies find themselves retrenching employees as well as putting even more people out of a job. All these factors combine to create an alarmingly high urban unemployment rate. In recent times, with the Covid-19 outbreak, the I the local government's resource capacity to construct the unemployment rates have also increased manifolds. With I required sanitation and sewage systems. people being laid off at an alarming rate, more and more people are becoming unemployed every day. Companies Sometimes, the existing sewerage systems may not have are retaining just the bare minimum number of adequate human as well as infrastructural capacity to employees. treat and manage the waste. So instead, it is drained into the water sources, polluting them and endangering the I is alarming because, with the pandemic at our door, we health of urban dwellers who may not only contract are facing the evils of urbanization even more. The jobs I harmful water-borne diseases but also consume water that had to be created once to meet the needs of the | contaminated with industrial waste and heavy metals. ever-growing urban population are being forced to shut down in the face of a huge economic crisis 6. Water shortage problems 3. Housing problems Water is very important for sustaining life. The rampant growth of the population in urban areas makes the water Housing problems tend to develop when people move to very scarce as the normal supply becomes strained and dties and they become overcrowded in them. If the cities inadequate to properly meet the demands of the large were not well prepared for the numbers, the houses population. I would become scarcer. It is even harder to settle people who come to cities and don't end up getting employed or | What is more, the water problems may worsen with the those who settle in as immigrants. Some of these people increase in water pollution due to poor sewerage are unable to afford to build their own homes or even systems and a lack of preventive measures for managing pay rent. local water pollution. The problem grows in intensity as the materials required | 7. Health hazards to build new houses become more and more insufficient. People living in congested urban areas are exposed to a Limited space also makes it difficult to facilitate lot of risks. Poor sanitation, water problems, and living in construction, and financial resources may even be scarce high-risk areas like next to dumpsites lead to disease of as they become primarily channeled into other all kinds. To make matters worse, people in these areas development and social safety net programs other than I often do not have proper access to health care services, housing This only adds to the problem. I which makes the disease much harder to cure, and at 4. Development of slums I times, it can even lead to death. Urbanization and industrialization make a lot of people In the slums, people are often diagnosed with diseases move to urban areas, but they do not prepare them for like infertility, food poisoning, allergies, asthma, the conditions they are likely to face when they arrive cardiovascular complications, respiratory failure, cancer, there. Urban areas tend to have a high cost of living. The and death. This can all be accredited to the overall housing problems fuel this even more, as all the people pollution that is experienced in these urban areas. who move to urban areas cannot be adequately The problem that global urbanization poses can be felt accommodated. even more with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. This leads to the advent and growth of slums as safe Now that social distancing has become absolutely I havens for those who cannot afford the high costs of rent essential, urbanization has become the greatest health I or lack substantial money to purchase apartments or hazard of all time. In developing countries, especially, the I build homes in urban areas. The slums arise from the problem is worse construction of houses on under-developed or The slum areas are the worst affected. It is in these areas undervalued land due to how scarce and expensive that the pandemic is spreading at a much higher rate. In apartments or land is in urban areas. most cases, as reported here, the cases are severe, and the fatality rate is very high. It is worth mentioning here