botoy
7th Nov '07 Wed, 07:19
the images describes the most polluted places
Water contaminated with toxic chemicals flows in an open trench in Ranipet, India.
http://images.livescience.com/images/061018_Ranipet_river_02.jpg
Young men look for metal at the site of an abandoned lead mine in Kabwe, Zambia. Lead poisoning of children in the area is endemic.
http://images.livescience.com/images/061018_Kabwe_lead_02.jpg
In Dzerzhinsk, Russia, waste from 190 chemicals has turned the groundwater into a dangerous toxic sludge. Life expectancy there is 42 for men and 47 for women.
http://images.livescience.com/images/061018_dzerzhinsk_sludge_02.jpg
According to a report by Battery Council International, the U.S. consumed over 12 billion pounds of lead in batteries from 1999 to 2003. A portion of these batteries end up in primitive recycling facilities like this depot in Haina, Dominican Republic.
http://images.livescience.com/images/061018_haina_batteries_02.jpg
Water contaminated with toxic chemicals flows in an open trench in Ranipet, India.
http://images.livescience.com/images/061018_Ranipet_river_02.jpg
Young men look for metal at the site of an abandoned lead mine in Kabwe, Zambia. Lead poisoning of children in the area is endemic.
http://images.livescience.com/images/061018_Kabwe_lead_02.jpg
In Dzerzhinsk, Russia, waste from 190 chemicals has turned the groundwater into a dangerous toxic sludge. Life expectancy there is 42 for men and 47 for women.
http://images.livescience.com/images/061018_dzerzhinsk_sludge_02.jpg
According to a report by Battery Council International, the U.S. consumed over 12 billion pounds of lead in batteries from 1999 to 2003. A portion of these batteries end up in primitive recycling facilities like this depot in Haina, Dominican Republic.
http://images.livescience.com/images/061018_haina_batteries_02.jpg