Most of these slum residents are laborers.

However, the Taxas Canal is often polluted by slum residents through trash dumping.

Even more ominously, drug lords are increasingly acting as judge, jury and executioner, a development actually welcomed by some slum residents in the absence of the police.

Some slum residents fear that without a mission and without discipline, the vigilante groups will degenerate into criminal bands.

Mr. Annez of the World Bank said he hoped and believed the slum residents who face eviction would be well compensated for their move.

Since the 1970s slum residents with piped water connections built water kiosks where they resell water to other residents in buckets.

Nevertheless, slum residents end up paying much more for water.

With this act, he is seen as a saviour and a man to be feared amongst the slum residents.

The entire project is planned to take nine years and will rehouse all the slum residents in the city.

The state had extended the cut-off date for these slum residents from January 1995 to January 2000.