Ten Most Polluted Places in the World, 2006
Ten Most Polluted Places in the World, 2006
This Top Ten list was compiled by the Technical Advisory Board of the Blacksmith Institute, an environmental NGO based in New York. The criteria used in ranking: the size of the affected population, the severity of the toxins involved, and reliable evidence of health problems associated with the pollution.
1. Chernobyl, Ukraine - The world's worst nuclear disaster took place on April 26, 1986.
2. Dzerzhinsk, Russia - A major Russian chemical manufacturing center, which produced Sarin and other deadly poisons during the cold war. In 1930- 1998, nearly 300,000 tons of chemical waste was improperly disposed of.
3. Haina, Dominican Republic - An urban area severely contaminated with lead from a now defunct automobile battery recycling plant.
4. Kabwe, Zambia - The country's second largest city is severely contaminated with lead from the mining industry.
5. La Oroya, Peru - Lead, copper, zinc, and sulfur dioxide from mining have c ontaminative the town.
6. Linfen, China - Severe air and water pollution from the coal, steel, and tar industries.
7. Maiuu Suu, Kyrgyzstan - This former Soviet uranium plant town is saturated with radioactive uranium mine tailings.
8. Norilsk, Russia - An industrial city in Siberia founded in 1935 as a slave labor camp, Norilsk is home of the world's largest heavy metals smelting complex and is plagued by severe air pollution.
9. Ranipet, India - About 1,500,000 tons of tannery waste has accumulated in this town over the past two decades.
10. Rudnaya Pristan/Dalnegorsk, Russia - Severe lead contamination from an old smelter as well as the unsafe transport of lead concentrate from the local lead mining site.
Source: the Blacksmith Institute, 2006. Web: ten.php .
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