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This chapter looks the way that urban migration is exacerbating present and future water problems. Many areas of the world are unable to keep pace with the growing need to supply their populations with the necessary wastewater collection and treatment facilities. One result of this is heightened pollution from discharging untreated sewage into existing water courses.
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McNabb, D.E. (2019). The Urbanization Barrier. In: Global Pathways to Water Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04085-7_6
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