With lax environmental protections, polluted water and air kill and sicken people.

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The problems of putrid water and polluted air are largely but not inevitably the result of rapid industrialisation and urbanisation.

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Its average incomes are dismally low, and much of its air and water is heavily polluted.

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More children are drinking polluted water and breathing polluted air.

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Far from being a source of legitimate comparative advantage, low environmental standards are an abuse of the human rights of those people usually the poor who have to suffer their direct consequences through polluted water supplies and poisoned air.

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