In many developing countries, there is a problem with declining Quality of water and air from both industry and construction. What measures could be takenTo prevent this?

The provided line chart depicts the

ratio

of unemployed people in theUnited

States

and

Japan

's labour pool in the United

States

and

Japan

between March 1993 and 1999. It is evident from the given graph that the

unemployment

rate experienced two contradictory patterns throughout the given period. According to what is shown, the United

States

had seven per cent of their

workforce

jobless in March 1993.

Then

, the unemployed

ratio

experienced a sharp decline since March 1993 and reached the 5.5 % mark in 1995, when it remained roughly the same for one more year. After that, the percentage of the unemployed

workforce

dropped gradually to about 4% at the end of the period.

By contrast

, the unemployed

workforce

ratio

in

Japan

climbed slightly from 2.2 % to 3.5 % in the

first

three years of the provided period.

In contrast

, it fluctuated around the exact figure for the

next

two years. By the end of 1999, the

unemployment

proportion in

Japan

reached a peak of 4.5, which was more significant than the US

unemployment

ratio

. In summary, the United

States

showed remarkable efforts to reduce the

unemployment

workforce

ratio

while

Japan

's jobless proportion had increased.