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Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
Forty factories that manufacture industrial and
agricultural chemicals release 70-120,000 tons of
detergents and pesticides into the air every year.
Untreated sewage and mercury-contaminated sludge are
dumped arbitrarily.
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Linfen, China
Severe air and water pollution from the coal, steel, and
tar industries.
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Tianying, China
One of the largest lead production bases in China with
average lead concentrations in the air and soils 8.5 to 10
times national health standards.
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Sukinda, India
Twelve chromite ore mines dump untreated water into the
river, and over 30 million tons of waste rock have been
dumped in the valley's riverbanks, which has resulted in
severe water contamination.
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Vapi,
India
There are over 1,00 industries covering over a thousand
acres in the region that has contaminated local produce.
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La Oroya, Peru
Lead, copper, zinc, and sulfur dioxide from mining have
contaminative the town.
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Dzerzhinsk, Russia
A major Russian chemical manufacturing center, which
produced Sarin and other deadly poisons during the cold
war. Between 1930-1998, nearly 300,000 tons of chemical
waste were improperly disposed of.
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Norilsk, Russia
An industrial city in Siberia founded in 1935 as a slave
labor camp, Norilsk is home of the world's largest heavy
metals smelting complex and is plagued by severe air
pollution.
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Chernobyl, Ukraine
The world's worst nuclear disaster took place on April 26,
1986. The 19-mile exclusion zone around the plant remains
uninhabitable.
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Kabwe, Zambia
The country's second largest city is severely contaminated
with lead from the mining industry.
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