U.S.-based Blacksmith Institute, an independent environmental group, in partnership with Green Cross Switzerland, today issued their Top Ten list of the world's most severely polluted places... Mining, Cold War era legacy pollution and unregulated industrial production are the major culprits... [In] Tianying, China,...[lead] poisoning severely stagnates children's intellectual development... [In] Vapi, India...more than fifty [industrial estates] poison the local soils and groundwater... [In] Sukinda, India...[12 mines leach] hexavalent chromium into drinking water supplies.