Blacksmith Institute

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The Blacksmith Institute, founded in 1999, is a New York City based organization supporting pollution-related environmental projects. One such project is the Polluted Places Initiative, which identifies polluted sites throughout the world by means of an online nomination process.[1]

As of September 2007, the Institute lists the following as the world's ten most polluted places (in alphabetical order by country):[2]


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The Institute has operated in China since 2002.[3]

[edit] World's "Dirty 30"

In its 2007 report, The World’s Worst Polluted Places issued on September 16, Blacksmith Institute included Meycauayan and Marilao in Bulacan, Philippines, in the list of the world’s thirty most polluted places in the developing world. It stated: “Industrial waste is haphazardly dumped into the Marilao, Meycauayan, and Obando River system, a source of drinking and agricultural water supplies for the 250,000 people living in and around” the Meycauayan-Marilao area."[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Harvey, Fiona. "Planet’s most polluted sites unveiled", The Financial Times, September 12 2007. 
  2. ^ World's Worst Polluted Places 2007. The Blacksmith Institute (September 2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
  3. ^ China Development Brief: Directory of International NGOs
  4. ^ Inquirer.net, Meycauayan, Marilao in world’s ‘Dirty 30’-- report

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