- Blacksmith Institute
The Blacksmith Institute, founded in
1999 , is aNew York City based organization supporting pollution-related environmental projects. One such project is the "Polluted Places Initiative", which identifies polluted sites throughout the world by means of an online nomination process. [ cite news
last= Harvey
first= Fiona
url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d4c0916-6156-11dc-bf25-0000779fd2ac.html
title= Planet’s most polluted sites unveiled
publisher=The Financial Times
date= 2007-09-12
accessdate= ]Most polluted places
Top ten
As of September 2007, the Institute lists the following as the world's ten most polluted places (in alphabetical order by country): [cite web|url=http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/ten.php|publisher=The Blacksmith Institute|title=World's Worst Polluted Places 2007|date=September 2007|accessdate=2007-09-13]
*Sumgayit,
Azerbaijan
*Linfen , China
*Tianying , China
*Sukinda ,India
*Vapi ,India
*La Oroya ,Peru
*Dzerzhinsk,Russia
*Norilsk ,Russia
*Chernobyl ,Ukraine
*Kabwe ,Zambia Also mentioned
*
Dandora ,Kenya
*Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin ,Argentina
*Hazaribagh ,India
*DongYangHuaxi ,China
*Lanzhou ,China
*Urumqi ,China
*Wanshan ,China
* Haina,Dominican Republic
*Oriente ,Ecuador
*Mahad Industrial Estate ,India
*Ranipet ,India
*Ust-Kamenogorsk ,Kazakhstan
*Maluu-Suu ,Kyrgyzstan
*Mexico City ,Mexico
*Huancavelica ,Peru
*Meycauayan ,Philippines
*Marilao ,Philippines
*Bratsk ,Russia
*Chita ,Russia
*Magnitogorsk ,Russia
*Rudnaya Pristan ,Russia The Institute has operated in China since 2002. [China Development Brief: [http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/dingo/Province/Nationwide/1-58-0-30-0-0.html Directory of International NGOs] ]
World's "Dirty 30"
In its
2007 report, [http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/wwpp2007/finalReport2007.pdf "The World’s Worst Polluted Places"] issued onSeptember 16 , Blacksmith Institute includedMeycauayan andMarilao inBulacan ,Philippines , in the list of the world’s thirty mostpolluted places in thedeveloping world. It stated: “"Industrial waste is haphazardly dumped into the Marilao, Meycauayan, and Obando River system, a source of drinking and agricultural water supplies for the 250,000 people living in and around” the Meycauayan-Marilao area"." [ [http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=89091 Inquirer.net, Meycauayan, Marilao in world’s ‘Dirty 30’-- report] ]References
External links
* [http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org Official website of the Blacksmith Institute]
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