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TABLE 31.5
Causes and Example Solution Sets for 10 Primary Health Issues in El Paso and Juarez
Home/Neighborhood
Ecology Examples
Cause
Health Indicator
Cause
Neighborhood/Urban Ecology Examples
Tree/platform shade system
Poor indoor air quality
Asthma
Air pollution from
burning of fossil fuels
and agrochemicals
Brine-based solar/hydrogen electrical energy,
solar pond, dust alleviation using sulfur/tire
paving for sidewalks and roads
Living machine and cistern
sales and use
Inadequate sanitation
Shigellosis
(diarrhea)
Water contaminated
by sewage
Megalora/wetland wastewater plantation,
reverse osmosis, desert plant biofuel
production
Bird/bat living machines,
community solar drying,
bottled water biomass
Mosquitoes, rats,
etc.—lack of screens,
breeding sites
Vector borne
disease (malaria,
dengue fever,
West Nile virus)
Pests breed in stagnant
water in illegal dump
sites
Megalora/wetland wastewater plantation, tire
processing, construction waste/debris
pulverizer, desert plant BioFuel production,
MgO, chloride, phosphate or silica cement
Intensive micro and
neighborhood food
production
Non-nutritious diet due
to poverty
Diabetes/obesity
Lack of access to
healthful foods, lack
of recreational
facilities
High rate vertical food production, integrated
aquaculture system
Active life cycle work,
healthy food farming and
preparation
Lack of access to healthful
foods aggravated by
poor air quality and
hypertension
Heart disease
Lack of access to
healthful foods, lack
of recreational
facilities
High rate organic vertical composter for organic
food, biochar energy, integrated aquaculture
system, open space recreation corridors as
bioilters
Rehabilitate neighborhood
for better air scrubbing
Poor indoor air quality
Communicable
disease (common
cold, lu,
pneumonia)
Crowded living
conditions
High rate organic composter, megalora
wastewater/wetland plantation, MgO cement
Ventilation, vegetation,
hydroponics, aquaponic,
energy, water treatment
Poor indoor air quality/
exposure to
agrochemicals and
industrial by-products
Cancer
Exposure to air and
water pollution from
agrochemicals and
industry
Megalora/wetland wastewater plantation, dust
alleviation using sulfur paving, methane from
landills, terra preta landills, megalora gasiier
boiler generating electric energy, desert plant
biofuel production, MgO, chloride, phosphate,
or silica cement
Recreation (balcony)
Children playing in illegal
dump sites
Accidents
Crowded living
conditions
Dust alleviation using sulfur/tire paving
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