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Ecuador and water

…broken pipelines, floods due to malfunctioning sewage systems, exorbitant water rates, poor water quality, and environmental damage due to the lack of wastewater treatment during this first five-year period. I…

Homeownership in the United States

…least common in urban areas. Rural and suburban homeownership rates are consistently higher than urban rates throughout the period. Rural homeownership starts at 72.0% in 1994, peaks around 76.3% in…

Changing fresh water patterns

rdan Changing fresh water patterns Some of the developing world’s largest rivers are drying up because of climate change, threatening water supplies in some of the most populous places on…