Water Pollution image in Haina, Dominican Republic

Pollution Image Info - Bajos de Haina, also known simply as Haina (usually with the H voiced as /h/, instead of being silent, as is the norm in Spanish) , is a town and municipality in the San Cristóbal (province), of the Dominican Republic. Bajos de Haina, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery recycling, a problem common throughout poorer countries has been referred to as the 'Dominican Chernobyl'. According to the United Nations, the population of Haina is considered to have the highest level of lead contamination in the world, and its entire population carries indications of lead poisoning. The contamination is believed to have been caused by the past industrial operations of the nearby Baterías Meteoro, an automobile battery recycling smelter. Although the company has moved to a new site, the contamination still remains.

Bajos de Haina was named as one of the ten most polluted places on earth by the US based environmental group the Blacksmith Institute in 2006, and is still listed as one of the 30 worst polluted cities in the world. Haina's story began in the mid 1990s when Null, director of New York-based Friends of Lead-Free Children, was in Santo Domingo giving a lecture, trying to get the government there to stop using leaded gasoline. Null was approached by someone in the audience and told about a company called Metaloxa that was recycling batteries and contaminating kids.

Null visited and found a lot with 30-foot high piles of batteries. The smelter sat atop a hill surrounded by homes and operated around the clock. The entire neighborhood was filled with lead fumes.

First, Null had the employees tested for lead.

''Anything above 70, 80 or 90 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood is serious and results in swelling of the brain,'' Null said. ``These guys were at 300. I am sure they were going to die.''

According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, a lead blood level above 10 is too high. Higher than that, the lead starts to change the brain's chemistry, leading to neurological problems like a low IQ. Other problems include problems with vision, seizures and hyperactivity.

Linfen is the most polluted city in the world

Pollution Image Info - Linfen (simplified Chinese: 临汾; traditional Chinese: 臨汾; pinyin: Línfén) is a prefecture-level city in southern Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. Linfen is the most polluted city in the world, even moreso than Chernobyl. where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities.

Water Contaminated Pollution Ranipet, India

Water Contaminated  Pollution Ranipet, India

Pollution Image Info - Water contaminated with toxic chemicals flows in an open trench in Ranipet, India

CREDIT: Blacksmith Institute

Effect of Chernobyl in Childrens

Pollution Image Info - More than 18,000 children, victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Cuba station 20 years ago. The children arrived in this country with various diseases or health conditions, from post-traumatic stress for cancer. They were diagnosed and received all kinds of treatments, including bone marrow transplantation for those suffering from leukemia.

Help

(1) Dana Centre

(2) Supporters of Nuclear Energy

(3) The Chernobyl catastrophe: consequences for human health, Greenpeace, 18 April

(4) Health effects of the Chernobyl accident and special care programmes, WHO, Geneva, September 2005

Wow Water Pollution in Lake Taihu China is Horrible

 Water Pollution in Lake Taihu  China

 Water Pollution Picture in Lake Taihu  China is Horrible

Pollution Image Info - I found this photo in this site Hurriyetdailynews.com  This photos of pollution taken on September 14, 2011 Chinese environmental activist Wu Lihong gestures toward the algae on the edge of Taihu Lake in Yixing in Jiangsu Province.

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Air Pollution in Linfen, China

Pollution Image Info - Largest city populated version of Time magazine, is very faint and dark that make this city like hell. The air here is full of coal pollution, and the roads are very crowded on emissions. You should stay away, even if you've been wearing a mask, because it cannot save you, walk away and never come back to this city.

River Pollution in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Pollution Image Info - In addition to political instability, military pressure and chaos caused by wars and natural disasters, the capital of Bangladesh is facing a crisis of excess with the highest water pollution levels. Industries that meet this city bring harm to the environment.

Increased Water Pollution in the River Ganges

Residual waste from refineries is disposed direct into the Ganges River causing water pollution in rivers.

Even though the existing pollution of the Ganges, millions of Hindus bathe in the river is still every year, to purify them from sin.

Although the color of the Ganges water cloudy or blackish, this man is sure to drink it.

Water Pollution in the River Ganges

Pollution Image Info - Increased pollution in the River Ganges. The Hindus in India, the Ganges is a holy river that is always freer than all the impurities. But essentially he is currently dealing with pollution of the most frightening crisis.

Sea pollution due to oil in Montara

Pollution Image Info - About 90,000 kilometers long by Indonesia in the Timor Sea waters contaminated with crude oil from Montara refinery that exploded on August 21, 2009. This contamination occurs because of the wind and currents are so strong from the south towards the north by the well exploded Montara

Jakarta Bay, moaning crushed Pollutants

Pollution Image Info - Thousands of dead fish washed up on shore. The fish were killed by chemical industrial plants that dump waste into the sea. Pollution in the sea due to the disposal of industrial wastes from various regions