10 Most Polluted places in the world
Posted by Moonage on 19 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: International Issues
Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World. Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country:
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Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities;
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Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery recycling, a problem common throughout poorer countries;
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Ranipet, India, where leather tanning wastes contaminate groundwater with hexavalent chromium, made famous by Erin Brockovich, resulting in water that apparently stings like an insect bite;
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Mailuu-Suu, Kyrgyzstan, home to nearly 2 million cubic meters of radioactive mining waste that threatens the entire Ferghana valley, one of the most fertile and densely populated areas in Central Asia that also experiences high rates of seismic activity;
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La Oroya, Peru, where the metal processing plant, owned by the Missouri-based Doe Run Corporation, leads to toxic emissions of lead;
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Dzerzinsk, Russia, one of the country’s principal chemical weapons manufacturing sites until the end of the Cold War;
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Norilsk, Russia, which houses the world’s largest heavy metals smelting complex;
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Rudnaya Pristan, Russia, where lead contamination resulted in child blood lead levels eight to 20 times maximum allowable U.S. levels;
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Chernobyl, Ukraine, infamous site of a nuclear meltdown 20 years ago; and
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Kabwe, Zambia, where child blood levels of lead are five to 10 times the allowable EPA maximum.
Meanwhile, Greenpeace continues to ignore all of those places and STILL blames global warming almost exclusively on the US. As does Al Gore
2 Comments »
on 20 Oct 2006 at 5:42 am 1.Valentina Fedorova said …
Chernobyl, one of the most polluted places. Here http://pripyat.com/en/photo_gallery/ - more than 6000 photos from this territory. More than 20 years passed, but knowbody knows exactly what is going on there. Also there are articles, ivestigations, news.
on 27 Jan 2008 at 11:49 am 2.Godofredo Arauzo said …
POLLUTION TO THE OROYA CITY
The years 2006 and 2007 the Blacksmith Institute have accomplished a research about the cities more contaminated to the world and arrived to the conclusion that the Oroya City was between the 10 cities more polluted of the world: Blacksmith Institute have be benevolent; according to my researchs to many years that I am publishing, the Oroya is the more polluted to Peru, Latin America and of the world and every day is being more polluted: lead in blood in children in the Ancient Oroya in average 53.7 ug/dl ( DIGESA 1999); pregnancies women 39.49 ig/dl ( UNES 2000), new borns children 19.06 ug/dl, puerperal 319 ug/100 grams/placenta ( Castro 2003) and workers 50 ig/dl ( Doe Run 2003). Top lead in blood accepted 10 ug/dl; present day is 0 ug/dl ( Pediatric of Academy to USA)
When the Oroya city was in hands to the CentroMin eliminated only by the upper chimney to 167.500 meters, in average by day in tons: sulfur dioxide 1000, lead 2500, arsenic 2500, cadmium, particulate matter 50 and so on, more 24,000 to toxis gas product to the incomplete combustion of the coal, without count it is eliminated by industrial incinerator y by the 97 smalls chimneys, it is estimated 15,000 (PAMA . El Complejo Metalúrgico de la Oroya, 1996); they add 45,000 tons by day,
Doe Run envoy every three months the concentrations of the heavy metals to the Ministry to the Energy and Mines and with the sames datums Ceverstav have demostrated the pollution was increased; for example the sulfur dioxide it have increased in near to 300 %, by increment to the production (Cederstav. La Oroya no Espera 2002