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Artículo

12 Sep 2007

Autor:
Blacksmith Institute & Green Cross Switzerland

The 2007 Top Ten of Worst Polluted Places - Updated List Includes New Sites in China, India and Central Asia

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.