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4 ways China can avoid megacity disaster - Tech Insider - 1 views

www.techinsider.io/avoid-megacity-disaster-2015-8

Megacities Year_12 Geography Background_reading Challenges_of_living Urban_sustainability

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    An urban sustainability expert, Warren Karlenzig, identifies four key challenges faced by Chinese megacities: water scarcity, energy efficiency, transportation issues, and waste disposal. He also proposes some solutions.
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Wetlands Transform a City's Sewage Through a Bit of Solar Alchemy - Next City - 0 views

nextcity.org/...water-that-irrigates-its-crops

Megacities Geography Year_12 Sanitation Urban_sustainability Kolkata

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    Describes the waste management system in East Kolkata, where a complex ecosystem process has been adopted by fish and vegetable farmers to treat sewage and garbage, making them useable for aquaculture and horticulture.
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It takes a village - and much more - to quench megacity water demands | Center for Syst... - 0 views

csis.msu.edu/...quench-megacity-water-demands

Megacities Year_12 Geography Challenges_of_living Urban_sustainability Responses_to_challenge

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    Explains how water is transported from long distances to supply a megacity, Beijing, and how this impacts on the people and environment outside of the city. Includes some measures taken to make the solution a sustainable one.
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