Onitsha, Anambra State, has been ranked as the world’s most polluted city, according to a data collected between 2011 and 2015, just released by the WHO. According to the WHO, an air quality monitor there registered 594 micrograms per cubic metre of microscopic PM10 particles, and 66 of the more deadly PM2.5s.' Onitsha’s figures are nearly twice as bad as notoriously polluted cities such as Kabul, Beijing and Tehran and 30 times worse than London. Onitsha, say academics, is a textbook example of the perils of rapid urbanisation without planning or public services creating a sustained pollution assault on its water and air. . As a tropical port city which has doubled in size to over 1 million people in just a few years, it is frequently shrouded in plumes of black diesel smoke from old ships; it has no proper waste incineration plants; its construction sites and workshops emit clouds of dust and its heavy traffic is some of the worst in Nigeria. A recent study of Onitsha’s water pollution found more than 100 petrol stations in the city, often selling low-quality fuel, dozens of unregulated rubbish dumps, major fuel spills and high levels of arsenic, mercury, lead, copper and iron in its water. The city’s many metal industries, private hospitals and workshops were all said to be heavy polluters emitting chemical, hospital and household waste and sewage.
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Posted: at 13-05-2016 10:28 AM (7 years ago) | Addicted Hero
dickieponga at 13-05-2016 10:45 AM (7 years ago) (m)
See una sef as una dirty, untidy stinking sef... Aba and Umuahia no difference and una get govnor wey una vote in... Shame on u guys...No wonda una dey breed like rabbits...
Posted: at 13-05-2016 10:45 AM (7 years ago) | Hero
See una sef as una dirty, untidy stinking sef... Aba and Umuahia no difference and una get govnor wey una vote in... Shame on u guys...No wonda una dey breed like rabbits...
MUST WE FIGHT EACH OTHER ...WHY NOT GET TO KNOW HOW THEY CAME UP WITH THE STATISTICS
Posted: at 13-05-2016 10:49 AM (7 years ago) | Gistmaniac
nametalkam at 13-05-2016 07:30 PM (7 years ago) (m)
Hahahah, no be small thing at all, dem deserve am well well, Onitsha is one of the biggest cities in the East, well played, another world record from the east for Nigeria
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