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Top 10 "Worst Polluted Places" of 2007
The Blacksmith Institute yesterday released a new list of the "Worst Polluted Places" in the world. This year the places spread out over 7 countries and effect over 12-million people. In Vapi, India, for instance, "Local produce has been found to contain up to 60 times more heavy metals (copper, chromium, cadmium, zinc, nickel, lead, iron) than non-contaminated produce in control groups," according to the Blacksmith Institute. Appetizing. Here's a list of the top 10 sites, along with a map containing the "dirty thirty."-
Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
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Linfen, China
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Tianying, China
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Sukinda, India
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Vapi, India
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La Oroya, Peru
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Dzerzhinsk, Russia
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Norilsk, Russia
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Chernobyl, Ukraine
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Kabwe, Zambia.
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Filed under: Africa, Asia, South America, Zambia, Azerbaijan, China, India, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Peru, Ecotourism
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Troy Oct 5th 2008 3:53PM
Sumgayit, Azerbaijan's pollution is a left over legacy from the days of the Soviet Union. Apparently an appalling amount of the chemicals used in the USSR were made there. What is left are these eerie rusted out skeletons of industry. They have been left to rot since the fall, but their poisons remain just below the surface. Thanks to new found oil wealth, some of those factories are spewing yellow smoke once again.
A stroll along the Caspian there though seems idyllic, white sand and fresh breezes from Turkmenistan, that is of course until you stumble upon the carcass of a dead Caspian seal.
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Willy Sep 13th 2007 1:56PM
Ha. I lived *just outside* Kabwe for 3 months in 1998. It was dirty, but it's not like sewage was overflowing into the streets. That said, there are some squatter's camps on the outskirts of town that are pretty raunchy. Think: on latrine for hundreds of people. Ugh.