Environmental reporting course to be held in Berlin

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Dismas Lyassa | 08/05/2008


Thanks for such effort

While they continue with looking for best journalists to attend thecourse, let me suggest organizers that they should selectparticipants from all nations as mentioned to make the course moreattractive as participants will get chance to exchangeviews/experience etc.

Thanks for selecting my Country Tanzania, Jordan, Ghana,Mozambique, Nigeria, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, as theyare facing environmental problems as well. But i suggest theorganizers in the future to invite participants from most pollutedareas as : Or arrange for us to be nominated to attend this yearscourse to visit those areas;

most polluted place in the world
Sumgayit in Azerbaijan is the world's most polluted place. It is aformer Soviet industrial base which is severely polluted byindustrial chemicals and heavy metals. Inhabitants suffer fromgenetic mutations and birth defects. Cancer rates are as much as51% higher than the national average.
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Top Ten Most Polluted Places in the World, 2007
This Top Ten list was compiled by the Technical Advisory Board ofthe Blacksmith Institute, an environmental NGO based in New York.The criteria used in ranking the include the size of the affectedpopulation, the severity of the toxins involved, and reliableevidence of health problems associated with the pollution.

Sumgayit, Azerbaijan
Forty factories that manufacture industrial and agriculturalchemicals release 70-120,000 tons of detergents and pesticides intothe air every year. Untreated sewage and mercury-contaminatedsludge are dumped arbitrarily.

Linfen, China
Severe air and water pollution from the coal, steel, and tarindustries.

Tianying, China
One of the largest lead production bases in China with average leadconcentrations in the air and soils 8.5 to 10 times national healthstandards.

Sukinda, India
Twelve chromite ore mines dump untreated water into the river, andover 30 million tons of waste rock have been dumped in the valley'sriverbanks, which has resulted in severe water contamination.

Vapi, India
There are over 1,00 industries covering over a thousand acres inthe region that has contaminated local produce.

La Oroya, Peru
Lead, copper, zinc, and sulfur dioxide from mining havecontaminative the town.

Dzerzhinsk, Russia
A major Russian chemical manufacturing center, which produced Sarinand other deadly poisons during the cold war. Between 1930-1998,nearly 300,000 tons of chemical waste were improperly disposed of.

Norilsk, Russia
An industrial city in Siberia founded in 1935 as a slave laborcamp, Norilsk is home of the world's largest heavy metals smeltingcomplex and is plagued by severe air pollution.

Chernobyl, Ukraine
The world's worst nuclear disaster took place on April 26, 1986.The 19-mile exclusion zone around the plant remains uninhabitable.

Kabwe, Zambia
The country's second largest city is severely contaminated withlead from the mining industry.
Source: the Blacksmith Institute, 2007. Web:www.blacksmithinstitute.org/ten.php

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