Megacities are populated with Millions of residents, a city that is overcrowded causes issues with adequate water supply in many cities. Shanghai, China and Karachi, Pakistan have a scarce water supply; some residents go days or weeks without water because of contamination and high prices. “Around 300 million people are suffering from water shortages.” Deaths have arisen due to water contamination, killing thousands of people yearly. Karachi water is be stolen and sold on a daily basis; making low income families paying extremely high prices to get the essential water that is needed. Shanghai and Karachi demonstrates the poor conditions megacities go through when a city is too big for its own good.
Shanghai has had sewage and chemical waste
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Pigs have been transported illegally to famers for years. While in transport by boat, some die. The person throws the dead pig overbroad, so the rest of the pigs don’t become sick and die. In the process water becomes contaminated. 16,000 pigs have been found on the city of Huangpu’s river. Famers are required to send animals that die from disease of natural causes to a processing pit. The black markets instead take the pigs and sell them as pork. The dead pigs have caused 190 million people to become sick, and 60,000 to die from liver and gastric cancer …show more content…
“Karachi is only able to meet 50 percent of its needs, and 30 percent of the water is wasted or stolen.” Illegal water is sold a high price and people are paying whatever the thefts wants to get one day worth of water. “As long as there are people ready to pay the asking price of water, there will be opportunists who will continue to illegelly tap into the supply system with the help of crooked officials and make a hefty profit. There are around 125 illegally established hydrants operating in the city, says Farid — a staggering contrast to the number of legally sanctioned hydrants, which only amount to