Can you imagine how greatly polluted be a place?Here i am giving a sample of the cities which are the most polluted in the world.
10.
Country:Peru
City: La Oroya
Description:Lead with cadmium, arsenic and mercury poisoning is the serious effect.
Effect: Many peoples are dying,by the research of 2005 there are many children below five years who have lead toxic level per deciliter of blood is bigger than 40 micrograms.How toxic is this?WHO(Worlds Health Organization) has set maximum safe limit of lead is 10 micrograms per deciliter of blood.Up to date information is more unbelievable. 60 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood also be found now a days in some children's blood.Sometimes people can not go ouutside from their home because it is not possible to breath in the air.But the matter of great regret that nobody cares about it!09.
Country:India
City: Vapi
Description:
Mercury level in ground water is so much higher(96 times) than the safe limit binding by WHO.Heavy metal are found in air.
Effect:
About 71 000 people are potentially affected.
08.
Country:Rusia
City: Norilsk
Description:
This is one of the largest heavy metal smelting complexes in the world .About four million tons of copper, cadmium, tin, arsenic, nickel, zinc and selenium are released each year in the air. In air the maximum allowance exceed for both nickel and copper, and the rate of is much higher by respiratory diseases than in Russia. From the nickel smelter, within 48 km no single tree can live. It’s a no tree land.Effect: Around 134,000 people are potentially affected.
07.
Country: China
City:Tianying
Description:Mainly land and water is polluted.Make an bad effect in the flow of blood in human body specially in children that cause very lowered IQ.The level of lead is 24 times than the standard value.Effect:Around 140,000 people are potentially affected.
06.
Country:Zambia
City:Kabwe
Description:Lead level is 15 to 16 times that is enough to kill anybody.Effect:Around 255,000 people are potentially affected.
05.
Country:AzerbaijanCity:Sumqayit
Description:120,000 tons of harmful emissions (mercury ,lead etc) from many factories.Most of the factories are closed but there is nobody to think about the others.
Effect:Around 275,000 people are potentially affected.
04.
Country:Rusia
City:Dzerzhinsk
Description:It is the city that make record in Guinness world book as the most chemically polluted city in the world.Mainly chemical waste is the pollutant substance.In 2003 the death rate of this city exceeds the birth rate by 260%.
Effect:Around 300,000 people are potentially affected.
03.
Country: IndiaCity:Sukinda
Description:A heavy metal hexavalent chromium which is used for the production of stainless steel is the main pollutant substance.Drinking water is heavily polluted by it.
Effect:Around 2.6 million people are potentially affected.
02.
Country:Cina
City:Linfen
Description:Air and water everything are polluted.
Effect:Around 3 million people are potentially affected.
01.
Country:Ukraine
City:Chernobyl
Description:Radiation in the air from the explosion of Chernobyl reactor on April 26, 1986 was 100 times more than the effects of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Thyroid cancer is the common disease in this city.
Effect:Around 5.5 million people are potentially affected.
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