Land pollution - pop produces 10,000 tonnes solid waste a day, only 60% is collected. Rats & other vermin live in plague proportions in dumps + carry diseases
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Housing problems - 60% of Cairo's population lives in shanty type dwellings. 'City of the dead' or Arafa -cemetery used to be on outskirts but now part of city, people living there illegally as shelter an no where else to go.
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Positive effects of rapid growth - large pool of workers, so never short of people willing to do low paid work.
