Worst Pollution Sites Include India, China – AFP

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A new survey awards China another ominous environmental distinction:

The lead production base of Tianying, eastern China and the industrial town of Vapi, India were among new additions to the top 10 list of “worst polluted places” by the Blacksmith Institute in New York and the environmental clean-up group Green Cross Switzerland.

The study ranked places based on the scale of the pollution and the number of people at risk.

“Children are sick and dying in these polluted places, and it’s not rocket science to fix them,” the institute’s director Richard Fuller said in the statement. [Full Text]



See full entries from the report on the two Chinese cities that made top-10: Tianying and Linfen.

[Image: A coal miner from Linfen, via the Blacksmith Institute.]

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