The rapid urbanization in recent years known by the cities of East Asia is producing dangerous forms of air and water pollution . The warning comes from the World Bank citing in this regard two new reports on the environment, which stresses that people in some urban areas are growing faster than their infrastructure, which means that one quarter of residents of these areas remain without access to drinking water.
The statement of the Bank has not yet specified the towns concerned. In East Asia, with more than 39 percent of the population lives in urban centers. By 2015 - the estimated bank-holding over the latter half of the inhabitants of the region.
One of the reports cited by the World Bank is the Environment Strategy for the East Asia and the Pacific . The other is
Little Green Data Book 2005 .
Source: Environmental News Network
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