Can you imagine a place where you share the same restroom with hundreds and even thousands of people you don’t know? Well people are living like that right now in what is called “slums”? Slums are defined by the United Nations as “poor sanitation and very crowded. “Most of the slums in the world are in a very urban area. There is a very big city and right outside the big city lie shantytowns and slums. There are currently many slums right know in the world but the worse slums are in Mumbai. In Mumbai the slum population reaches into the hundred thousands of people. Slums are a very bad place to live in because there are a lot of people, no money, and very dirty ugly place to live in.
Primary, the huge amount of people have an effect on the slums pollution because it leads to dieses being made and spread easier Diseases are the number one killer in the world today. They are the number one killer because if some of the diesies aren’t treated right away it can cause death. And most slums don’t have medicine to cure these dieses because of it huge population. Also there are only a few restrooms for a really big population and it gets very dirty and nasty. In the slums there are open sewers witch means that the poop that someone does stays there and just rots. In source 2 Fink says, “Yeah there are open sewers”. Another reason why slums are very poor is because there is no money
The next bad thing that slums have is that there is no money in slums. People make little or no money because there is very few jobs in the slums.” You can make a living off a dollar a day,” says Fink from source 2. The two reason there is no money is because there is a huge amount of people and everyone wants a job. For that reason there are many robberies and sleazing in slums so it makes it dangerous. That is why the crime rate in slums is very high. There are small jobs like pottery and other small jobs.
Lastly slums are very nasty and ugly. There is no sewage. The air is really bad. Also there is trash everywhere. There are no trashcans and everything is polluted. There is no drinking water because it is very dirty. Everywhere where there are people there is trash. “It is a very dirty,” says Fink from source 2.
Many people that live in slums don’t really mind how things are because that is the only thing they have ever done. They don’t mind if it is dirty because they don’t have anywhere else to go. In conclusion for any other person who goes to a slum would not like to live there. Slums are a bad place to live to in because there is too many people, no money, and very dirty and ugly.
