Worlds most Polluted cities.

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Looks like only one city for India...

Not so bad!

Ranipet

 

[Vinod2070]

Are you telling me you don't have such scenes in any Pakistani city? Pakistani cities are cleaner than the western cities?

What is the whole point of this thread? Is it to share a report based on 6.5 years old data (and that too just on SPM) with no indication on what was the sample size, which cities were evaluated et al?

I guess the thread originator should point out what he wants to discuss here. Pollution is inevitable with development especially for developing countries as China can testify the best.

The environment disaster in China is nothing like anywhere else! I hope they will take steps to rectify that. The same for other countries including India.

Congratulations to the Paksitani friends if Pakistani cities are pollution free. You have managed to achieve something, even developed countries have not been able to!

 

[solid snake]

Are you telling me you don't have such scenes in any Pakistani city? Pakistani cities are cleaner than the western cities?

What is the whole point of this thread? Is it to share a report based on 6.5 years old data (and that too just on SPM) with no indication on what was the sample size, which cities were evaluated et al?

I guess the thread originator should point out what he wants to discuss here. Pollution is inevitable with development especially for developing countries as China can testify the best.

The environment disaster in China is nothing like anywhere else! I hope they will take steps to rectify that. The same for other countries including India.

Congratulations to the Paksitani friends if Pakistani cities are pollution free. You have managed to achieve something, even developed countries have not been able to!

Maybe you missed it, but most Pakistanis in this thread said our own cities are polluted too.

 

[Vinod2070]

Not denying that. Being in the top polluted list is not a badge of honor either.

At least some posters have a different purpose in mind, which is OK by me. Just hope that we know where this thread should be going.

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Not denying that. Being in the top polluted list is not a badge of honor either.

At least some posters have a different purpose in mind, which is OK by me. Just hope that we know where this thread should be going.

Its not that the poster meant something .. It was an attachment to the report and as per the layout it was only possible to paste in the next post.

Doesnt mean anything else thou ...

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Latest reports in 2007 for the 10 most polluted in continuation to the last report in 2006.

The Most Polluted Cities in the World
By Amy Cassara on Friday, September 28, 2007.

In both the United States and Western Europe, the effects of pollution on human health have declined dramatically in the last half-century. Widespread industrial pollution persists, however, in many regions of the world. More than a million people still die each year from urban air pollution and lead poisoning, and over 80 percent of all diseases recorded by the World Health Organization are wholly or partially attributable to environmental factors (WHO 2006).

Earlier this month, the Blacksmith Institute's Polluted Places Initiative released an unranked list of the 10 most polluted cities in the world. More than 400 cities were nominated and evaluated for this dubious honor. The winners are not ranked, but are presented below, alphabetically by country.





These ten winners, along with 20 honorable mentions comprise Blacksmith's "Dirty Thirty." More information about the sites along with a map can be found here. The cities are selected based on criteria that include the toxicity and scale of pollution, the level of human exposure, and the number of people affected. Special consideration is given to sites that disproportionately harm children.




In Dzerzhinsk, Russia, toxic groundwater contamination
has reduced the average life expectancy to 42 for men
and 47 for women.

Source: The Blacksmith Institute, 2007.


The Blacksmith Institute uses these rankings to raise awareness about pollution in the developing world and to engage local, national, and international actors to tackle the sources of pollution.

Related Links

WHO | The urban environment
UN-HABITAT: GUO
EarthTrends: Feature - Health, Environment, and Poverty
EarthTrends: Searchable Database - Population, Health and Human Well-being

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Time.comCNN.com
Sunday, December 30, 2007

The World's Most Polluted Places

1. Linfen, China
2. Tianying, China
3. Sukinda, India
4. Vapi, India
5. La Oroya, Peru
6. Dzerzhinsk, Russia
7. Norilsk, Russia
8. Chernobyl, Ukraine
9. Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
10. Kabwe, Zambia

Time Archive

Link:

The World's 10 Most Polluted Cities - The World's Most Polluted Places - TIME

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Sukinda, India

Women draw water from a well. Groundwater in Sukinda is believed to be contaminated with chromium.



Number of people potentially affected: 2,600,000
Type of pollutant: Hexavalent chromium and other metals
Source of pollution: Chromite mines and processing

If you watched Erin Brockovich, then you know what hexavalent chromium is: a nasty heavy metal used for stainless steel production and leather tanning that is carcinogenic if inhaled or ingested. In Sukinda, which contains one of the largest open cast chromite ore mines in the world, 60% of the drinking water contains hexavalent chromium at levels more than double international standards. An Indian health group estimated that 84.75% of deaths in the mining areas — where regulations are nonexistent —are due to chromite-related diseases. There has been virtually no attempt to clean up the contamination.

— by Bryan Walsh

Link:
Sukinda, India - The World's Most Polluted Places - TIME

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Vapi, India

Greenpeace activists collecting samples of effluents being released into the Damanganga river from the Vapi Industrial area.


Number of people potentially affected: 71,000
Type of pollutant: Chemicals and heavy metals
Source of pollution: Industrial estates

If India's environment is on the whole healthier than its giant neighbor China's, that's because India is developing much more slowly. But that's changing, starting in towns like Vapi, which sits at the southern end of a 400-km-long belt of industrial estates. For the citizens of Vapi, the cost of growth has been severe: levels of mercury in the city's groundwater are reportedly 96 times higher than WHO safety levels, and heavy metals are present in the air and the local produce. "It's just a disaster," says Fuller.

— by Bryan Walsh

Link:
Vapi, India - The World's Most Polluted Places - TIME

 

[Vinod2070]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Thanks for sharing.

I hope you said it from you heart




I not posted it for making India look bad or something out of rage ...

But its true that out of 10 most polluted cities, India has 2 cities ranked 3rd and 4th. Why?. Now i think everyone has the knowledge.

 

[Tiki Tam Tam]

Indeed, those two cities must be real horrors.

I live in one of them.

Still alive.

But many in the beautiful cities of the world die for causes that are not so pleasant!

 

[Proud to be Pakistani]

Indeed, those two cities must be real horrors.

I live in one of them.

Still alive.

But many in the beautiful cities of the world die for causes that are not so pleasant!

Do you differ that your city is better then mentioned..........

Death with bullet is not so painful.... No?.

Death with 3 months on the bed due to chromate and mercury?.

Ironical!

 

[x_man]

:Salim

I have lived in New Delhi (early 80s) for 4 years and it was a beautiful city , pollution free and a city that looked like a capital. Something must have gone drastically wrong (besides mass movement and industrial development) over all these years that it has turned into the most polluted city of not Asia but of the world!!!! Calcutta was bad then, and I wasnt surprised to see its name in top10.

If you are satisfied that being the most polluted city is just another side effect of development +growth, then perhaps it will retain its top position for many years to come.

 

[Plasma]

^^ I hope Islamabad does turn out like that, i really like it the way it is. Looks fit to be a capital.