Onitsha, a fast growing city in Anambra, a South-East state in Nigeria, has been tagged the world’s most polluted city according to a report published by the World Economic Forum.
The list was gotten from the World Health Organisation’s Urban Ambient Air Pollution Database (2016) which contains urban air quality data of 3,000 cities, collected between 2011 and 2015.
According to the report, “Of the 3,000 cities in the WHO’s air quality database, the most polluted at the time of measurement was Onitsha, a fast-growing city in Nigeria, which recorded roughly 30 times more than the WHO’s recommended levels of PM 10 particles. Peshawar in Pakistan was in second place, followed by Zabol in Iran.”
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I don't know why Nigeria is the first place to be associated with everything negative. If Bangladesh, Haiti, Mumbai, didn't make this list
ReplyDeleteAm wondering who compiled the list and what the angle is.
When doing an analysis like this you factor in the number of people per toilet, the distribution of people in d environment and non of these cities mentioned has a population problem so how can an eveningly populated city be termed a very polluted city.
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