Oxidative stress index is increased in children exposed to industrial discharges and is inversely correlated with metabolite excretion of voc

Abstract

children living at polluted sites like this, show early biological effects that might lead to health problems in their adult life. Environmental protection should be enforced to protect people's health in these sites where not even environmental monitoring is done. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 59:639-652, 2018. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Puebla City Water Supply from the Perspective of Urban Water Metabolism

“…Rainwater evaporated on the central city surface was estimated at 177.85 Mm 3 /yr, and evaporation in the consumption process was estimated at 24.31 Mm 3 /yr. Water pollution discharged into rivers also volatilizes into the air, forming Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), some of which are potentially carcinogenic and linked to diseases such as leukemia or cancer in children and young people in the metropolitan area [57,125].…”

“…Absences and inconsistencies in the data collected for the UWM model are common in UWM and UM studies [15]. In the case of the City of Puebla, data limitations coincide with water management challenges, for example: the increase in VPA water availability between 2013 and 2016 is incongruent [12,13,91], but is conducive to the concession of larger volumes of water and consequently aggravating the overexploitation of the VPA; the incongruent data related to wastewater treatment is consistent with water pollution [57,64,[123][124][125] and related socio-environmental conflicts [38,39]; the absence of information on the consumption of bottled water and water transported by tanker truck conceals the negative consequences of their consumption for water affordability (and thus to the compliance of HRWS). Other information and data limitations hide water issues, masking potential water mismanagement, including informality and illegality.…”