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What is overpopulation?
Overpopulation is an excessive amount of population of an area. This excessive amount of people can cause overcrowding, depletion of natural resources, and environmental deterioration.
India is the best country to study overpopulation. India has a population of 1.2 billion people which is more than one sixth of the worlds population! This country is a great example on how overpopulation can affect a country and its people.
Poor Sanitation
There are thousands and thousands of homes without proper sanitation. Having poor sanitation means that their sewer system is either in real bad conditions or non existent. This can cause health problems because the amount of bacteria increases and the people breath in these harmful and sometimes deadly bacteria. This is a huge problem because many countries that suffer from overpopulation dont have health insurance or their towns are lacking the proper facilities to treat their people for problems like lung cancer, heart disease, etc.
In Conclusion
As said before, Earths resources are limited. In places like the United States, our resources seem infinite and people dont have to worry about anything becoming scarce. In other places, for example India, there are so many people that resources have become scarce and people do worry about meeting the needs of their families. People there dont have enough water, they dont have enough housing, they are getting rid of forests and killing animals , they suffer from diseases due to poor sanitation and pollution, etc. India is a great example to show the effects of overpopulation to a country because we can compare ourselves to them and see that having too much of something, in this case people, is not always a good thing.