The images describes the most polluted places
Water contaminated with toxic chemicals flows in an open trench in Ranipet, India.
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.
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.
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.
