The World’s Worst Pollution Problems: Assessing Health Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites
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Published by: Green Cross ; 2012The World’s Worst Pollution Problems: Assessing Health Risks at Hazardous Waste Sites report reveals that close to 125 million people are at risk from toxic pollution across 49 low to middle-income countries. Also, the report, for the first time estimates the total global burden of disease attributed to toxic pollution from industrial sites in these countries. It establishes the global burden of disease from toxic pollution as on par with better-known public health problems such as malaria and tuberculosis.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)
Tags: Human health ; Urban zone ; Air pollution ; Water pollution 
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