The non-profit Environmental Institute, which is located in New York City "Blacksmith" publish the list of the most polluted areas in the world in 2013, where they found the mostly in the areas belonging to the developing countries, industrial cities, e-waste processing centers and mining towns.
The chairman the institute, "Richard Fuller" in his statement, saying: Our estimates indicate that "the health of more than 200 million people at risk of pollution in the developing world."
According to the report, the World Health Organization estimated that 23% of deaths in the developing world can be attributed to environmental factors such as pollution.
The researchers explained that the areas were selected on the basis of the ten most dangerous to health, as examples of the different types of pollution throughout the world.
1 - "Oajabujblousha" in Ghana
The people burned wires and other electronics for copper and other metals, but this process will lead to the launch of toxic fumes in the waste dump site in the "Oajabujblousha" in Accra, Ghana.
2 - "Chernobyl" in Ukraine
Occurred worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in the world in 1986 were a hundred times more radiation from the radiation of atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
3 - "River Sitarom" in Indonesia
More than 500 thousand people affected directly and five million individual affected indirectly by chemical pollution in the "River Sitarom."
4 - "Dzerzhinsk" in Russia
In Encyclopedia "Guinness" for index numbers, The city of "Dzerzhinsk" is called as the most chemically polluted cities on earth, where until the end of the Cold War, the city was one of the main manufacturing sites in Russia's chemical weapons.
During the period between 1930 and 1998, was to get rid of about 300 thousand tons of chemical waste incorrectly them.
5 - "Hazaribagh" in Bangladesh
The city "Hazaribagh" includes up to 95% of the 270 Tanneries enrolled in Bangladesh, where the intervention of chemicals such as a known carcinogen hexavalent chromium into the water supply of these facilities for the processing of leather.
6 - "Kabwe" in Zimbabwe
In 2006,exceeded the levels of lead in the blood of children,in "Kabwe" exceeded the recommended levels of five to 10 times.
7 - "Kalimantan" in Indonesia
The gold miners in "Kalimantan" - such as the young man described in the previous picture -Exposed to high levels of mercury.
8 - "Matanza Raatchoulo" in Argentina
the river basin "Matanza Raatchoulo" was pollutted by chemicals such as zinc, lead, copper and nickel, which threatens more than 20 thousand people living in that region.
9 - "Niger Delta" in Nigeria
The extraction of oil in the Niger Delta resulted thousands of spills and groundwater contamination.
10 - "Norilsk" in Russia
Each year, about two million tons of sulfur dioxide emited in the air of the industrial city "Norilsk" Prussia.
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