Top 10 most polluted places on the planet Bashny.Net

On our planet, the mass of interesting and attractive places that many people want to visit. However, there is also the place from which the best stay away. They should be avoided, not because there's nothing interesting, but because the stay there can be life-threatening. Ekologicheskym American Fund Blacksmith Institute has compiled a list of ten such places.

10. Dzerzhinsk, Russia



According to the reports of ecologists in 1930 - 1998 years in Dzerzhinsk was buried more than 200 thousand tons of chemical waste - including the most dangerous neurotoxins known. City water is partially contaminated with dioxins and phenol, and the level of contamination, according to available data, 17 million times the safe level. Today the city is home to about 300 residents. The average life expectancy of 45 years.

9. Kabwe, Zambia


At the beginning of the last century in Kabwe were discovered large deposits of lead and cadmium. Later there were built large enterprises for the processing of these metals. As a result, the current level of air pollution by heavy metals is four times the permitted limit. The number of infected people in the city of more than 250,000 people. They suffer from acute poisoning of the blood, which leads to frequent vomiting, diarrhea, kidney and muscle atrophy.

8. La Oroya, Peru


Compared to other cities, the settlement is relatively small - it is home to only 35,000 people. However, more than 95 percent of people infected with serious diseases associated with high levels of lead in the blood. On the territory of the settlements are American plants extraction of minerals such as lead, copper and zinc. They emit huge amounts of sulfur dioxide, because of what often are acid rain.

7. Linfen, China


Linfen - a city in the heart of China's coal industry in Shanxi province. The level of sulfur dioxide and other harmful particles in the air is many times higher than normal. They are so numerous that the air is gray and visibility deteriorates. The city is home to more than 200 thousand infected people suffering from pneumonia, lung cancer and bronchitis.

6. Norilsk, Russia


Norilsk is considered one of the most polluted places in Russia. There is often a black snow, and the air felt the taste of sulfur. In Norilsk, located in the world's largest processing plants of heavy metals - copper, blue bream, nickel, selenium and zinc. To date, the city will live about 134 thousand infected people suffering from respiratory diseases. Since 2001, the entrance to the city for foreigners is prohibited.

5. Sukinda, India


This city has the world's largest chrome mine. Most of the waste water discharged into the enterprises of rivers and lakes, causing almost all the city water supplies are present carcinogens. The city is home to over two and a half million people. Almost 90 percent of the population susceptible to cancer.

4. the Tianjin, China


The Tianjin - China's industrial center for the production of lead. This is one of the most polluted places in China. The concentration of lead in the air and the soil is almost 10 times higher than the permissible norm. The lead content of crops growing in the neighborhood, is 24 times higher than normal.

3. Vapi, India


City Vapi at the end of a long belt of industrial complexes 400 km. In this city are concentrated more than 1,000 industrial enterprises. The level of mercury in the groundwater Vapi almost 100 times higher than normal, and the air is full of heavy metals. The number of infected residents of Vapi, suffering from all sorts of chronic diseases, this year has exceeded 70 thousand.

2. Sumgait, Azerbaijan


Sumgait - that's one cent of the chemical industry of post-Soviet space. Today there live more than 275 thousand people infected with heavy metals, waste oil and other chemicals. Children in the region are born with genetic defects such as mental retardation and bone disease.

1. Chernobyl, Ukraine


On the Chernobyl tragedy has been said a lot. Today the number of people affected by radiation in the region of 5.5 million. The nuclear disaster, which occurred April 26, 1986, when, during the test at Chernobyl due to the explosion of the reactor core melted, brought a hundred times more radiation than the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.