29 Most Toxic Places On Earth

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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There are many environmental issues plaguing the capital and most populous city in Haiti. The lack of protection and proper management of the region’s natural resources leads to deforestation, natural disasters, poor sanitation, and severe pollution with people dumping waste and sewage into the canals that run through Port-au-Prince. When it rains, the city gets flooded from the canals that are full of garbage, bringing waves of toxic sludge to families packed in homes in the projects. There are no sewers that connect sinks and bathrooms to wastewater treatment plants, and most of the three million people in the city relieve themselves in outhouses where human waste ends up in canals, ditches, and unsanitary dumping grounds. Human excrement then contaminates the drinking water and spreads disease. Without an effective waste management system, the city faces major problems in garbage disposal services, infectious diseases, pollution, as well as availability and quality of water.