{"id":82946,"date":"2016-02-25T08:31:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=82946"},"modified":"2016-02-25T08:47:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T08:47:55","slug":"top-9-polluted-places-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6toplists.com\/?p=82946","title":{"rendered":"Top 9 Polluted Places on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this day and age, people have been continuously talking about how important it is that we keep our environment and mother nature clean<\/strong>. They talk about how we need to stop littering the ground with plastic bags, plastic cans, boxes, cigarettes, and other trash.<\/p>\n

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They talk about how we need to start recycling and sorting<\/strong> through paper and plastic. We need to walk more, to bike more, and to eat more organically. We need to be better at respecting our planet<\/a> in general.<\/p>\n

As sick as some people may be of the speeches, they may be right more than they\u2019re wrong.<\/h3>\n

When you really take a look at what goes on in other parts of the world, you begin to see how much worse people have it. Forget about things like money<\/strong>, jobs, etc. Look and think about how their land is.<\/p>\n

Not only theirs, but ours as well. Just like everyone else, we live in an environment that used to be clean<\/strong>, but is now incredibly dirty. It\u2019s filled with not only trash, but also lots of bad chemicals<\/a> and toxins because of things that are both our fault and out of our control.<\/p>\n

What happens when we let our planet and mother nature go awry is people and animals get hurt, ill, and even worse, killed. Thousands and millions of people end up with numerous illnesses<\/strong> and diseases due to living in a place filled with toxic sewage. Some of them don\u2019t even get the chance to try to survive them. When you learn about these events, you start to realize just how important it is to keep our world a safe place to live<\/strong> in and to have our future children in.<\/p>\n

In this article, we\u2019ll be talking about nine of the most polluted<\/strong>, poisonous, toxic, and contaminated places on the earth with one bonus city that has actually made significant improvement since it was first placed on the list.<\/p>\n

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10. Vapi, India<\/h2>\n

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This place makes the last place in the list since it was once a very polluted area<\/strong>, but recently, things have been improving. Illegal dumping of toxic waste <\/a>has improved significantly and people are working to clean up what was once one of the worst polluted cities in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Unlike the other cities, the drinking water in Vapi is very clean and anyone who drinks it will not run into any potential health issues. The roads are much cleaner<\/strong> than they were before as the open gutters are now sealed and beautiful plants such as trees and flowering shrubs cover the sides.<\/p>\n

The Common Effluent Treatment Plant<\/a> continues to stay upgraded on a regular basis and improves its performance regularly. The planet makes sure all of its metals are managed properly<\/strong>. Due to the fact that the quality of environmental life is vastly improving, Vapi, India, located in Asia, has been taken off the most polluted places list<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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9. Kabwe, Zambia<\/h2>\n

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Due to lead mining and processing, cadmium and lead pollution<\/strong> had affected the lives of 255,000 people in Kabwe, Zambia, located in southern Africa. Zinc and\u00a0lead<\/a>\u00a0had been discovered in the area in 1902. The mining had continued throughout the years until 1944 and nobody had ever thought<\/strong> about the possible complications that would come from doing so.<\/p>\n

Since operations deceased in 1944, the place is still in bad shape. The city continues to be contaminated<\/strong> by lead dust in the soil and metals in the water. The blood concentrations found in children is so high and has the ability to be fatal. The kids who play in the sand and the young men who search the mines for scrap metal are the most prone to being poisoned by lead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n