Impacts of urbanization on various components of environment in Kadapa city in Y.S.R. Kadapa district

Probably most of the major environmental problems of the next century will result from the continuation and sharpening of existing problems that currently do not receive enough political attention. The problems are not necessarily noticed in many cities or then nothing is done even the situation has been detected. The most emerging issues are climate changes, freshwater scarcity, deforestation, and fresh water pollution and population growth. These problems are very complex and their interactions are hard to define. It is very important to examine problems through the social-economic-cultural system. Even the interconnections between environmental problems are now better known, we still lack exact information on how the issues are linked, on what degree they interact and what are the most effective measures. One problem is to integrate land-and water use planning to provide food and water security (UNEP 1999).

The major urban population of Kadapa municipality are unbalanced development of the municipal corporation, pollution (air, noise, water and dust pollution) development of urban slums, shortage of housing, highly congested central business area of the Kadapa municipal corporation, high intensity of residential concentration in the old bus stand area, absence of organized commercial areas and shopping centres with sufficient parking and storage facilities, in adequate city services like water supply, drainage, traffic and transportation, narrow circulation pattern of roads in the old bus stand area, development of slums, encroachment of tanks and solid disposals.