As the largest tributary of the Ganges, scientists estimate that roughly 60% of Delhi’s waste gets dumped into the river. This doesn’t change the fact that almost all of its residents rely on it for water and bathing as well.Accounting for over half of China’s lead production, this city is home to some of the worst cases of lead poisoning in the world.As a result of outdated regulations, the 40 or so industrial complexes in the region have managed to created a severely toxic environment that has led to numerous health complications for residents.Situated at the end of a an extensive line of industrial complexes that stretch for hundreds of miles upriver, the level of mercury in Vati’s water supply is 96 times higher than anything considered safe.Named the world’s most chemically polluted city by the Guinness Book of World Records, in recent years its death rate has overwhelmed its birth rate by more than 260%. It also has one of the lowest life expectancies in the world at roughly 45 years.Used for years as nuclear dumping site by the Soviet Union, Lake Karachay has several times been declared the most polluted place on Earth. In fact, it has been said that just 1 hour of exposure here would be lethal.The site of the worst nuclear accident in history, after the Chernobyl Disaster in 1986 almost all of this town’s 14,000 residents moved away. Today it remains for the most part uninhabited due to radiation and fallout.It has been said that if you hang your laundry out here, it will be black before it can even dry. Although Linfen was long considered the world’s most polluted city, small improvements have been made in recent years.You may have heard the horror stories about a trash dump twice the size of Texas floating out in the middle of the Pacific. While these are slightly exaggerated there actually is something out there known as the Pacific Trash Vortex. This is an extensive area in the North Pacific containing high levels of microscopic toxins, plastics, and chemical sludge. As a result of the rotating Pacific currents (known as gyres in oceanography) these have been “trapped” in the region. Contrary to popular myth though, it cannot be seen from space (or even from a boat for that matter) but this doesn’t change the fact that it is extremely damaging to the marine environment.According to the World Health Organization Ahvaz, Iran is now the most polluted city in the world, a problem that is only made worse by its constant dust storms.1 2
So youre telling me that duststorms and smog are more polluted than an atmosphere where you couldnt live for longer than an hour?
Horrible .are we really intelligent species ?stop pollution in any form or we will. be destroyed
Is it really a photo of lake Karachay. I guess not.
Human Beings are the biggest parasite on the earth. The only way to remotely solve this problem is to control human population growth. What needs to happen is politicians enforcing strict limitations on amounts of offspring people can have. If this is not done and human population is not controlled and reduced take the images seen above and multiply it by the amount of growth incurred. In other words more people is going to = more devastation and what good would it be to be bringing children into this world to suffer anyway……….So pathetic to see those images!
Photo in #10 is actually in Manila Bay, Philippines (not India)
We should rename our species, “Trash Monkeys.’ What a disgusting legacy we’re leaving. Our species is developed technologically, but per-stoneage in terms of wisdom and husbandry.
the picture posted for the Iranian city in the number one spot for the worlds most polluted city is not actually in Iran. the picture seems to me like it’s in saudi arabia. the white Thoube the men in the photo are wearing is the saudi national dress for men, the flags are green (saudi flag) even through the storm you an tell it is not an iranian flag.
dust storms and nuclear Chernobyl and you claim Iran is the most polluted. what do you take us for? fools?? zombies?
its not the places which are polluted but we the people who are polluted by our heart,
And a polluted thing only can make is pollution.
The Country with the record for the most polluted waterways in the world with a land mass populated with under 5 million people is New Zealand.. this has been caused by a company called fonterra who continues to expand at a alarming rate with more and more farm dairy conversions example..the provence of Southland has 90.000 people with good sewage desposal.. as well as enough cows dumping on the ground per day sewage equating to 7.5 million people without desposal means… this is now right accross New Zealand and it stinks when you go for a Sunday drive in the countryside. so much clean green image of NZ
Iranian city number 1 in terms of most polluted worldwide
Its absolutely mind numbing that mankind has managed to accomplished such a feat and become such a plague on the earth. Whats more insane is that there is no other posts or even comments of any kind on this article. Wow are we in really in trouble.
Lord help us all for what we are doing to the precious gift our creator has given us.