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Date:         Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:47:22 -0400
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Subject:      "US-Mexico Border" neighborhood added to NLM's Tox Town

A "US-Mexico Border" neighborhood has been added to Tox Town
(http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/border/main.html).
<http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/border/main.html).> 

Users can now explore a border community to learn about air pollution,
drinking water quality, workplace hazards, pesticides, rats and snakes, lead
poisoning, backyard trash burning, and many other environmental concerns
that may affect one's health. New locations to explore in the border scene
are an auto shop, tienda (corner store), maquiladora (factory), crop fields,
stormwater and sewage systems, illegal dumps and tire piles, and a colonia.
Colonias are border communities that lack paved roads, running water, and
waste disposal, and are home to over 400,000 people in Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona and California.

The U.S.-Mexico border region shares many of the same environmental health
concerns that can be found anywhere in the U.S., but also has unique
concerns and issues because of its geography, economic development, and lack
of municipal services in some locations. The United States, Mexico, state,
local, and tribal governments are working together to promote better
environmental health in the region through programs such as the U.S.-Mexico
Border Environmental Program: Border 2012,
<http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/> http://www.epa.gov/usmexicoborder/.

 


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