Urbanisation
- Mumbai has rapidly urbanised over the past 60 years
- This has been due to a high natural increase, and the booming economy attracting people due to the large number of jobs
- Mumbai is on an island making it harder to grow outwards
Dharavi
- Dharavi is the biggest slum in India with over one million inhabitants
- There are open sewers in the streets so disease spreads easily
- Homes are very small with many people living in them
- Water is also rationed
- 85% of people who live in the slum work in the slum
- There is a recycling zone where 80% of the plastic in Mumbai is recycled
- A $2 billion redevelopment project is threatening Dharavi with the slums bring replaced by high rises. The sense of community will be lost as well as many peoples jobs.
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