What are the dirtiest cities in the world?

In recent years, mankind has negatively affected the environment. Continuous factories release various chemicals into the air, pollute water and land. The consequences of all this are quite sad: every year a huge number of not only animals, birds and fish die, but also people, there are frightening mutations, incurable diseases. In 2007, for the first time, a study was conducted to identify the dirtiest cities in the world. The rating was compiled on the basis of mortality, medical care, water and air pollution.

The dirtiest city in the world is Sumgait. Although Azerbaijan is trying to become the second Dubai, it still can not cope with the bad ecology of the environment. In this city, twenty-four oil refineries work day and night, as a result of which people can not breathe, and the level of cancer diseases is growing every day. Over a year, more than a hundred tons of toxic emissions are emitted into the atmosphere.

In second place is Linfen. Densely populated China can not boast of perfect purity in any city, but this is considered the most dangerous for life. There are a lot of coal-fired power plants, smoking day and night. The dirtiest city in the world constantly throws lead, arsenic and sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere , which especially negatively affects the health of children.

In the shameful three leaders came another Chinese city - Tianying. And all the fault - the extraction of lead. Because of the smelter, here, the level of lead in the atmosphere exceeds the permissible norms by a factor of ten.

The dirtiest cities in the world are mainly concentrated in Asia and Africa. The Indian city of Sukinda also confirmed this statement. All the fault - the deposits of chrome ore. To date, recycled rocks not only pollute the surroundings of the city, but even float in the drinking water. This situation, of course, negatively affects the health of citizens.

The Indian city of Vapi has also become the most dirty because of the factories, the number of which is very large. As a result, groundwater is contaminated with mercury, which is 96 times more than the WHO standards assume. Every year the mortality rate among the population increases.

In the rating "The dirtiest cities in the world" got the city of La Oroya (Peru). The reason for the contamination was the extraction of ore. As a result, vegetation dies due to acid rain, and people - because of the high content of lead in the blood.

In the top ten most dangerous were two Russian cities - Dzerzhinsk and Norilsk, having settled, respectively, in the seventh and eighth places. All the fault of the work of chemical plants and metallurgical plants, throwing into the air poisonous substances. Mortality is increasing, children are born with congenital diseases.

In the dirtiest cities in the world , and Ukrainian Chernobyl. The blame for all was the explosion at the nuclear power plant, which affected the lives of about 5 million people. Those who were in the radiation zone died, many became invalids. Children born after the accident, weak immunity, some - congenital diseases.

As you can see, all the cities became dirty because of human short-sightedness and indifference towards the surrounding nature and other people. If the government of these countries does not take any action to clean up the environment, then the environmental situation will be on the brink of disaster.