final draft

     Imagine a life with bad sanitation that includes flimsy bags filled with human waste called "flying toilets", and the contents of those bags leaching thier way into you food. Some unfortunate people of the world must live in these conditions in certain situations. In general slums are crowded; run down places that have poverty plagued people living along with mud, sewage, and diseases. For reasons such as those, slums negatively affect the human population because they offer disgusting sanitation, contaminated consumer products, and poor shelter conditions for its inhabitants. The first negative factor from the slums that decreases the human population daily, is the nasty sanitation offered by the slums.
    The bad sanitation in the slums has a fatal effect on the population of the slums.Sewage from outer cities and from the slum itself, flows freely through the slums. For example source 1 states, " like the vast majority of Kiberia residents, Musanga and her family have no toilet. They used to make do by sneaking into a nearby outhouse that belonged to someone else." (Fink 1). The quote helps others get a visualization of what the sanitation in the slums is like. Using an outhouse that isnt thiers can lead to diseases for Musangas family because the owners of the outhouse might have a sickness and can pass it on to her family, but because they really have no choice of where to release thier waste other thatn to use a "flying toilet"  tthey must make do by using others restrooms. the idea of disgusting sanitation leads to the next point of contaminated consumer products.
     Contaminated consumer  products in the slums is also another negative factor that negatively affects the population.For example, Fink states in source , " human waste leaches into the water people drink and contaminates the food they eat". Because of the bad sanitation, the human waste finds its way into what the people of the slums eat and leads to many fatal diseases such as typhoid fever, also showing that there is a low standard of living in the slums. The contaminated consumer products wont do the victims/ citizens of the slums any good, but they have no choice but to eat and drink what they have. Coming to the last point, poor shelter is also another dangerous and harmful factor that is negative for the human population.
    poor housing doesnt give sufficient protection against natural disasters or from the sewage luurking around in the slums. In addition the small mud and cardboard shacks used for shelter, arent big enough for the amount of people living in there, forcing uncomfort upon many of them. When being interviewed in source 2, and asked about the housing of the slums, Onergera, a former slum resident commented," the houses are made of mud and theyre very crowded. and the slum is very dirty as you can see"( Blythe 2). the houses described in the source can come apart very easily when exposed to precipitation or a natural disaster because theyre made of mud and cardboard. since the houses can come apart easily, they wont protect its inhabitants from natural disasters, and that can make them get severly wounded or die because of the lack of protection. Coming to an end, all the factors mentioned, in addition to many others, all give slums the characteristics of a death trap that reveals no escape for its victims/ residents.
     in conclusion, the slums have a fatal effect of the human population.They offer horrible sanitation that lets human waste  lurk throughout the slums and leach into thier food, the bad sanitation leads to the contaminated consumer products of the slums and it can bring many fatal diseases, infections, and viruses into ther system, and the poor shelter conditions doesnt give sufficient space  or protection for thier inhabitants.all of these factors together make slums negative for the population, and horrible regions to live in. Now imagine  poverty plagued people who must live in the unsanitary conditions of the slums because of ther lack of money, and to them there is no escape from the slums. the only choice for them is die off one by one because of the bad living conditions. what can you do to be a global advocate?