Dead space - prepared annual ranking of the most polluted places on the planet

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Not to drink. Not to breathe. Not to bathe. American environmentalists have made the World's Worst Polluted Places-the 2013 annual ranking of the most dangerous from the point of view of ecology places on Earth.

Over the past two centuries people have managed to dirty the planet most not spoil. And not only in a growing population and new kinds of garbage. Heavy industry, in addition to valuable goods, manufactures, and tens of thousands of tons of toxic substances and poisons, the side activities, so to speak. Until it's particularly no one cared, wars, confrontation, the cold war. Environmental boom began at the end of the last century, when humanity finally realized the extent of the threat that we ourselves are creating every day.

In the zero study the most dangerous from an environmental point of view places became engaged in the blacksmith Institute (Blacksmith Institute). Initially, the experts established the ratings of poisonous cities. The ranking of villages according to the degree of danger was dissatisfied with the representatives of many countries. Immediately there was criticism, they say, as you compare and appropriate places, it is forbidden for Chernobyl with Norilsk to equate. Blacksmithery took these remarks into consideration, and since 2008 the local cities not to assign, publish just the top ten most places.





Pripyat.
© Alexei Furman/RIA Novosti So where was dirtier in 2013? Pleased to note that compared to last year's top list of World's Worst Polluted Places left Russian Novotroitsk and Rudnaya Pristan. There are, however, a fly in the ointment. These cities out of the ranking not because there was a lot of cleaner, simply appeared more dangerous places. This year, the environmental hit parade of our country represent the two cities of Norilsk and Dzerzhinsk. Nickel centre in the list of Blacksmith is constantly. However, American experts note some positive changes. Over the last 10 years the emissions of sulphur dioxide there has been reduced by a quarter.





Metallurgical plant, city Novotroitsk.
© Yuri Abramochkin/RIA Novosti Dzerzhinsk also truly alarming. First, due to geographic location. He's not in the Arctic circle, Nizhny Novgorod region, Central Russia. Second, the guard scream it's time for a lifetime. Men in Dzerzhinsk she is 42 years, for women 47 years. Pension reform, you say? Will not live. The number of potentially infected people 300 thousand people. From the CIS countries in the list-2013, apart from Russia, only Ukraine was present. Well, Chernobyl from this top list will not disappear for another couple of centuries.

Of the 10 most polluted places in the world last year, three are in Africa. About Agbogbloshie in Ghana we have already mentioned, the computer giant dump. Kabwe from Zambia suffered from the mining industry. After decades of elaboration of the surrounding hills were covered with a thick layer of cadmium and lead. The level of pollution exceeds the norm by 400 percent. In 2007 has begun treatment, but until a quarter of a million people is still suffering from acute poisoning of the blood. Finally, from the threat of the African places in the list of Blacksmith appears the Niger Delta in Nigeria. For half a century of oil production the Anglo-Dutch group Shell has made Niger one of the dirtiest trash on the Ground, seven thousand cases of oil spills. Cancer people are dying by the thousands. Even in the wells dangerous carcinogen benzene exceeds the rate of 900 times.

Three other sites are in Asia. River Citarum on the island of Java fell under the supervision of the blacksmith Institute from the landfill. Despite the fact that the top of the biggest dumps on the planet Citarum not included, to drink water from it, dead water, like from a fairy tale. It is particularly sad that in this condition people brought the river in just 20 years. The district of Hazaribagh in Bangladesh has received highest pollution of chromium and tannins. The surface of 25 hectares and are 90% of all tanneries in the country. Daily they poured into water 22 thousand industrial waste. On the Indonesian part of Kalimantan people, as in the song, die for metal. Gold. There it is extracted by the mercury method, processing the gold-bearing rock with mercury. Particles yellow metal adhere to the mercury, which then evaporate, suffer from this 225 thousand people.





Tannery, Bangladesh.
© Andrew Designed/Reuters Last dirty place 2013 is Argentina, the basins of the Matanza and Riachuelo, the banks of which stands the city of Buenos Aires. The solution to this environmental problem, the world Bank 5 years ago has allocated 840 million dollars, but until things are there. Toluene. Chemical plants merge it together with other waste in the waste water by the ton, save. Residents are forced to seriously spend money on oncologists. Lung cancer and gastrointestinal tract here is a very common disease.





Bank Of The Matanza-Riachuelo.

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