Top 10 "Worst Polluted Places" of 2007

by Justin Glow Sep 13th 2007 @ 12:30PM

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
Linfen, China
Tianying, China
Sukinda, India
Vapi, India
La Oroya, Peru
Dzerzhinsk, Russia
Norilsk, Russia
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Kabwe, Zambia.

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Filed under: Africa, Asia, South America, Zambia, Azerbaijan, China, India, Russian Federation, Ukraine, Peru, Ecotourism

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Sep 13th 2007 @ 1:56PM

Willy said...

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.

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