The most polluted seas, rivers and lakes of Russia: rating of water bodies with photos and videos. Five rivers in the world that claim to be the world leader in water and bank pollution Polluted rivers of the world

Gone are the days when swimming in rivers and lakes was safe and enjoyable. We are increasingly peering into the water - are there any chemical stains there, is there something strange floating by?

Swimming in such waters means at least a bad smell, dirt, and even the risk of contracting unusual diseases, up to death.

And such places as Lake Karachay or the Indian Ganges are generally world leaders in their pollution. Unfortunately, this list is constantly expanding. We will talk about the dirtiest reservoirs in the world below.

Cytarum. The dirtiest river in the world flows on the Indonesian island of Java. It is only 300 kilometers long, but there are more than 500 factories on its banks, many of which are textile. They all pour their waste into the Cytarum. Garbage collection points simply do not exist here, as well as toilets in a modern form. But just 20 years ago it was a pristine river that served the people living on its banks. Citarum fed numerous canals that irrigated the surrounding fields, people caught fish here, and there was food for birds. Water was even taken for domestic needs. Today, due to the garbage dumped by nine million people and hundreds of factories, there are places on the river where the surface is not visible at all. There can be no talk of fish - now only plastic bottles are caught here. Although diving into the murky waters of Citarum is dangerous to human health, people still swim here. Fishermen have begun to catch trash from the water, this is more profitable than the previous fishery. Garbage collectors earn $1-2 a day, but this is fraught with the risk of disease. Dirty water goes to the rice fields, where it soaks into the soil. But the river is still a source of water for drinking and domestic needs. The decline was the result of the rapid growth of industry in this region in the 80s. The negative effect will be carried over further, because the Citarum is one of the largest rivers that feed Saguling Lake. There, the French built the largest hydroelectric power station in West Java. Experts believe that there will soon be so much garbage that the full flow of the river will decrease. As a result, the hydroelectric generator will stop producing full power, which will lead to a lack of electricity for factories. Maybe at least it will let the river breathe again.

Great North American lakes. On the border between Canada and the United States are huge lakes - Michigan, Erie, Huron, Superior and Ontario. But today these are rather dirty water bodies, ahead of all others on the continent. Initially, the lakes are natural wealth, there is not only a lot of fresh water, but also a rich animal world. But man could not save the Great Lakes from typical environmental problems. The situation in them has deteriorated sharply due to the surrounding chemical plants, metallurgy, oil refineries. These industrial facilities supply the lakes with toxins, making the waters a veritable poisonous soup. The struggle of the governments of the United States and Canada for the cleanliness of the lakes has so far been unsuccessful. The largest freshwater lake on the planet - Upper has already changed its temperature regime. This leads to a change in wind directions and currents, which will change the appearance of a unique natural object.

Yangtze. The Chinese River is the third longest in the world after the Nile and the Amazon and the longest in Asia with an indicator of 6300 kilometers. But in the WWF rating, it firmly ranks first, only by such a controversial criterion as the dirtiest river in the world. The fact is that 17 thousand Chinese cities on the banks of the Yangtze do not have a purification system. That is why all the waste is dumped into the giant river. But for the largest cities in the country - Shanghai, Wuhan and Nanjing, the Yangtze is the only source of water. That is why the state of this river is an urgent problem for China itself. About 500 million people live on the banks of the river, it contains 40% of the country's total water resources. The authorities themselves say that the water quality is generally good. But the volume of polluted water in the Yangtze is 34 billion tons. But according to officials, this is not enough relative to a trillion tons of annual flow. And every year this figure increases by 2 percent. There are 400 thousand chemical plants, 5 large steel complexes and 7 oil refineries operating on the banks of the river. In addition, about 300 thousand tons of dangerous goods such as oil, liquid gas, fuel oil, gasoline are transported along the river every day.

Lake Onondaga. This American lake is located in the state of New York, near Syracuse. In the United States itself, a natural reservoir is designated as an extremely dangerous place. But at the end of the 19th century, many resorts were built along the coastline. But the industrial revolution and the growth of cities led to a massive discharge of dirty water here, which led to the degradation of the lake. Today, nitrates, phosphates, mercury and dangerous bacteria are present in abundance here. In 1901, the authorities banned the collection of years from Onondaga, and in 1940 they banned swimming here. In 1970, mercury pollution led to a fishing ban. The law passed in 1973 and clean water and the closure of large industrial pollutants in 1986, as well as the installation of purification systems, did not help either. Only in our time, fish are gradually returning to the lake, birds have decreased the content of chemicals in the water. But complete victory is still far away.

King River. This river is the dirtiest in Tasmania. And the reason for this phenomenon was a copper mine, which began working at the end of the 19th century near Queenstown. For decades, millions of tons of waste were dumped into the water, and the smoke from the pipes caused acid rain in the area. This water also flowed into the King River. Until 1995, about 1.5 million tons of sulphides were dumped into the river every year. Even the closure of the mine did not change the situation much - after all, heavy waste is at the very bottom of the King River. In total, a person dumped about a hundred million tons of waste into the river.

Huanghe. The famous Chinese Yellow River is the second largest in the country with an indicator of 5464 kilometers. The yellow color of its waters is associated with sediments. But today the color of the water has already turned brown, and in some places even red. It's all the fault of chemicals that are dumped into the river by neighboring factories. The constant installation of dams and a change in the flow of the Yellow River leads to its drying up in some sections. And rapidly growing Chinese cities are only making matters worse. In 2008, a report was officially published stating that severe pollution had rendered a third of the river unsuitable for agricultural or industrial use at all. Every year, 4.3 billion tons of waste is dumped into the Yellow River, while the share of industry is 70%, and households - 23%. This is twice as much as was dumped into the river in the 80s and exceeds the ability of the river to restore balance on its own. Even the economic damage from such pollution has been calculated - up to 15 billion yuan annually. The water of the Yellow River is actively used by agriculture, which takes up to 90% of all water used. As a result, the health of farmers is in jeopardy, and more money is spent on filtration.

Lake Victoria. Three countries have access to this unique reservoir at once - Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. As a result, there are disputes about who should take care of the lake. The pond turned out to be without an owner, and although there are rules for local residents and guests, no one follows them. Someone washes a car here, and neighboring settlements and enterprises secretly dump sewage. And this despite the fact that people swim and fish in the lake. Meanwhile, the situation with water pollution is already so serious that contact with it can cause cholera, diarrhea and severe skin diseases. Algae are rapidly multiplying in the lake, about half of the fish population has already disappeared.

Sarno river. Many call this river in the central part of Italy not only the dirtiest in the country, but in general in Europe. Sarno passes through Pompeii and carries its waters to the Gulf of Naples. Chemical fertilizers from fields, city sewage get here. The measures taken by the authorities do not give any result. But the waters of Sarno are still used for irrigation. In addition, the river often overflows, which further exacerbates the ecological situation in the surrounding lands.

Mississippi. The main river of North America flows through 10 US states. Initially, the river valley, covered with a thick layer of silt deposits, was the most fertile place. Only three hundred years have passed since the Europeans came here. Now the continent's largest waterway has been poisoned by human activity. Until recently, the river itself purified its waters, but industrial effluents and agricultural activities have significantly undermined the health of the Mississippi. Today, the river carries toxic sewage, it contains millions of cubic meters of waste and harmful bacteria. Chlorine-containing hydrocarbons enter the river from the atmosphere. Oxides of sulfur, nitrogen, and carbon, as well as industrial waste, household chemicals, and pesticides, are abundant in Mississippi waters. Once there, they settle to the bottom, mix with silt, becoming part of the diet of fish. It is no coincidence that in many places fishing is generally prohibited here. Below Minneapolis, the waters of the Big Dirty Missouri also pour into the Mississippi. In the lower reaches, petrochemical plants harm the river. As a result, in Louisiana, you can see huge oil slicks on the river. The last major city on the Mississippi, New Orleans, experienced a surge in cancer in the 1970s and 1980s. It is strictly not recommended to drink raw water here. And the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico generally appears as a real "death zone". Not only does all the garbage get here, but because of it, there is also a low concentration of oxygen. This makes it impossible for aquatic organisms to live here.

Karachay. In the twentieth century, a new type of pollution appeared - radioactive. A classic example of such inhuman treatment of nature is Lake Karachay in the Chelyabinsk region, Russia. Since 1948, the Mayak plant began to work on the banks of the reservoir, which processed spent radioactive materials. Since 1951, this facility began to use not the Techa River, as before, but Lake Karachay for storage of waste liquid waste. At present, about 120 million curies of radioactive materials such as cesium and strontium have accumulated there. Over time, it was decided to fill the lake completely, which was started in 1986, but never completed. Today, the coast of Karachay is almost the most dangerous place in the world. It is believed that an hour's stay here can kill a person. True, with the backfilling of the lake, the problem will not completely disappear, because groundwater will continue to become infected.

Ganges. The main Indian river is the third deepest in the world. It has long been considered sacred to Hindus, pilgrimages are made to it, but at the same time, cremations and ritual ablutions are performed on the banks of the Ganges. Today, the river is considered one of the dirtiest rivers in the world. But the health and lives of more than 500 million people living in its basin depend on the waters of the Ganges. Starting from the very headwaters, the river becomes dirty due to overcrowded cities and the drains of numerous enterprises. In addition, the Ganges also floods seasonally, collecting all the sewage and waste of human life. Even bathing in the river, not to mention drinking, provokes various infectious diseases. For example, a site near the city of Varanasi contains 120 times more fecal enterobacteria than is allowed. This is not actually a river, but a brown court of excrement and drains. In this sacred place, the dead are cremated, and many of the dead are simply thrown into the river. Every year, from bathing in the Ganges alone and subsequent diseases, 1.5-3 million people die, mostly children. State plans for the creation of treatment facilities failed. It is also good that the river has long-known self-purification abilities, simply preventing dangerous bacteria from multiplying above a certain level.

Now you can’t even believe it, but once the most polluted rivers in the world were clean, they swam in them, fished and even drank water from them. But now the situation has changed dramatically.

Once clean rivers have turned into dumps. And although it is dangerous to swim in such rivers, people living on them not only perform ablutions, but also use their water as a drink.

Watching such a picture, you understand that humanity is one step away from a water crisis and something needs to be done about it.

Citarum River, Indonesia

The river is located in West Java, Indonesia. This is the dirtiest river in the world. Nevertheless, water is used as a water supply, to support agriculture, for industrial purposes, etc.

The Citarum River is not very big. The width is only 10 m maximum, the depth is even less - 5 m, but its length reaches 300 km. It originates in Indonesia, stretches along the entire western Java, and also flows near the capital Jakarta. The river flows into the Java Sea.

Not so long ago, the river was rich in fish, trills and singing birds, flowering gardens grew on the banks. Now you can see only polyethylene trash. The fish has long since died. This is where bacteria thrive.

The reason for such a sad environmental situation was industrialization, which began in 1980. Now more than 500 organizations dump their waste into the rivers.

In addition, all household waste and sewage ends up in Citarum. This is the waste of more than 9 million people!

In 2008, funds were allocated to clean up the river, but this did little to help. It will take more than one decade to completely clean up the river.

Jumna River, India

The Jumna River comes second on the list. In fact, Jumna is a huge dumping ground for the capital of India.

The length of the river is 1376 km. The basin area is 359 thousand km². In spring and summer, the width of the river reaches 1-2 km. As a rule, in winter, the water level drops.

The average water consumption is 3 thousand m³/s. The depth of the river is 10-12 m. The tributaries of the Jamna are Tons, Chambal, Ken and others. Jumna begins on the southern slopes of the Himalayas, flows from the Yamunotri spring, its height is 3255 m. It flows through some states of India, as well as through Delhi. Falls into the Ganges.

The Jumna River has practically no living creatures. Occasionally you can find swimming fish, but you can not eat it. Near the river there are still flowering trees and birds, but every day there are fewer of them.

The cause of river pollution is the same human factor. Tons of garbage from residential areas and businesses flow straight into the river.

Local authorities have allocated huge amounts of money for cleanup, but nothing has changed.

Now the river is just a convenient place for waste.

Ganges River, India

The Ganges is the most famous Indian river. It is a sacred place for Indians. The total length is 2700 km.

It is the deepest and longest in South Asia. The basin area is 1,060,000 km².

In the dry season, the width of the river ranges from 430–440 m, the depth is about 12 m.

In rainy weather, 900 m, and a depth of 20 m. The average amount of water is 12 thousand m³ / s.
The river begins high in the western Himalayas, from the Gangotori glacier, has many tributaries and branches. The Ganges flows into the Bay of Bengal.

The natural world of the river is under threat. Due to the ecological situation, animals leave the river valley for the forest area. Wolves, foxes, deer still live here. In the river, you can occasionally see freshwater dolphins and other fish species.

The cause of the ecological catastrophe is population growth, production waste and the lack of a good sewerage system. Having bathed in the Ganges, you can catch typhus, cholera, dysentery. The population is dying due to poor water conditions. If no action is taken, the river will simply die.

Yellow River, China

It is also called the Yellow River. It is the second longest in China (5464 km). The basin is 752 thousand km². Water consumption - 2571 m³ / s. The average width of the river is 100 m.

The source of the Yellow River is in Tibet. It flows into the Yellow Sea, forming a delta.

The animal and plant world used to be very rich. Now the flora and fauna have changed. There are practically no living creatures in the waters of the Yellow River.

The river is heavily polluted with oil products. It dumps toxic waste from various factories and enterprises.

In addition, farmers pour wastewater into it. The authorities allocated money for water purification, but this did not produce results. The local population continues to use water for agriculture.

The Mississippi River is the longest river artery in North America. It ranks 3rd in the world in terms of length (3734 km), the basin is 2,981,000 km². The average width is 2000 km, the average depth is 10 m. The annual water discharge fluctuates between 7-20 thousand m³/s.
The source of the Mississippi is Nicolette Creek, located in Minnesota. It flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

Rich flora and fauna. It is home to many wild animals, plants and aquatic life. Dirty habitat has not yet greatly affected the flora and fauna.

According to statistics, the Mississippi River pours 600 million tons of waste into the Gulf of Mexico every year. The main cause of river pollution is shipping and hydroelectric power plants. Refineries are also located on this site. Every year, 30 million cubic meters / m³ of wastewater enters the water.

Situation in Russia

And this is not the whole list of rivers. In fact, there are many more of them, and in Russia river pollution is a big environmental problem. The most unfavorable is the ecological situation. The Volga passes through the central part of the country, where the population is the largest, on its banks there are many industrial cities, whose enterprises dump waste. Following are the Siberian rivers, which also experience the load of the country's industrial complex, these are the Ob, Irtysh, Yenisei. The list continues with Iset, Lena, Pechora, Oka, Tom. It turns out that most of the rivers that pass through ours are mercilessly polluted.

The irresponsible attitude of man to water resources has led to sad consequences: vast expanses, once full of life, have turned into a waste dump. It is in the interests of everyone to stop this inexorable destruction of all life. Our goal is to preserve water resources in their original form, because they are the source of human life and home to millions of flora and fauna. Be conscious and take care of nature!

The problem of water pollution in fresh and salt water bodies of Russia is relevant and urgent. Vacationers and residents of coastal cities are very concerned about the state of the water and beaches, some of which are so polluted with garbage and waste that it is visible to the naked eye without any research. Due to the amount of mud, some beaches are unsuitable for swimming. Many reservoirs have areas with particular pollution, and some seas, lakes and rivers are so dirty that they can safely be included in the list of the most polluted reservoirs in Russia.

The most polluted rivers in Russia

Running fresh water, which should serve as the main source of supply to Russian taps, is becoming increasingly dirty and less suitable for consumption. And in some reservoirs, the situation is so critical that even swimming in them is not recommended, and we are not talking about drinking at all.

Since the main source of pollution in the rivers of Russia are industrial emissions, sewage and household waste, not properly disposed of, small rivers suffer the most. Emissions in them are as plentiful as in large canals, but due to the small amount of water and less flow, the concentration of harmful substances in small rivers reaches critical levels.

Rivers' pollution

Both medium and even the largest rivers suffer:

Tom and Oka in some areas are so dirty that fish die out en masse in them, and mountains of garbage have accumulated on the banks.
The waters of the Pechora and Lena are spoiled not so much by utilities and household waste, but by the extraction of gold and diamonds, the gas pipeline, and shipping.
Iset suffers from several sources of dirt at once. Here, oil products, metals, and sewage have a negative impact on water.
The Irtysh “comes” to us already dirty. Unfortunately, it is not possible to influence the purity of its waters even with a strong desire, since the main dirt gets into the river at its sources, which are outside the territory of Russia.

"Leaders" in the rating of the most polluted rivers in Russia

Ob and Yenisei can open the list of "leaders". If earlier they served as a source of clean drinking water, now it is strictly not recommended to use this water without proper filtration or prolonged boiling. This can cause intestinal infections and more serious illnesses. They suffer from dumped industrial waste.

Volga pollution

One of the largest and most important rivers in Russia, the Volga, occupies an unhonorable first place. In addition to industrial waste, a huge amount of wastewater is also dumped into it.

The most polluted seas in Russia.

Studies conducted on the subject of the dirtiest seas have shown that the beaches of the Azov and Black Seas, the Baltic, the Caspian and Primorye will not be the best places for a sea holiday.

Fourth place - Azov and Black Sea waters

On the western sea borders, rather large film pollution was found. There are beaches suitable for swimming on the Azov and Black Seas, but shipping and other human activities have led to the fact that these waters still fell into the rating of the dirtiest seas in Russia.

Third place - Baltic Sea

The Baltics have disappointing results in terms of monitoring compliance with sanitary standards. While relaxing on local beaches, you can get intestinal infections if you swallow sea water. Pollution is caused by dumping of waste products. Treatment of wastewater and industrial emissions into the water is not established, the observance of sanitary standards on the beaches and in the coastal zone, where many people rest, is not monitored.

Second place - Caspian

The situation in the Caspian is also quite critical. Here, too, the authorities are not particularly active in controlling emissions, and the owners of factories and industrial enterprises do not care about filtering waste dumped into the sea. The result of this was an unfavorable situation.

Disappointing first place - the waters of the Far East

Primorye suffers mainly from abundant shipping activity. Due to the huge number of seaports and the very plentiful circulation of ships in these waters, critical indicators of pollution are noted. Waste oil products and other emissions from maritime transport have been polluting water regularly for many years.

The most polluted lakes in Russia

With the purity of the waters in the lakes of Russia, the situation is also not very favorable. And if some reservoirs are polluted only in places or have acceptable indicators and only strive for the unpleasant title of “the dirtiest”, then some lakes are so dirty that they can hardly be called lakes.

Lake pollution

The sad situation in the Black Hole Lake area. This body of water, due to the activities of industrial enterprises that regularly and for a long time dump waste here, has turned into a large garbage dump.

With the "White Sea" the situation is similar. This lake is also difficult to call a body of water. Illegal dumping of garbage and toxic substances has turned it into no more attractive than the "Black Hole" garbage dump.

Another very dirty Russian sea was included in the list not because of domestic or industrial waste, but because of radioactive substances in huge concentrations in the water.

There are so many of them here that Karachay occupies an unpleasant place of honor in the list of the most “unclean” fresh water bodies not only in their homeland, but also in the world. Although at first glance it is quite clean here, it is strictly forbidden to be on the banks and even more so to swim here.

During the construction of cities by people, polluted rivers began to appear - a consequence of the progress of industry. But society only replaced this problem when waste began to negatively affect health.

How to identify fluid poisoning

Pollution of water areas - a change in the composition of water by physical or chemical action or the entry of biological creatures into it. Further use of the resources of water spaces is inexpedient and can cause the death of animals and people. Contamination is determined by eye, but in some cases laboratory tests are required.

Poisoning is indicated by a change in the color of the water or its turbidity, an unpleasant outgoing odor. The liquid contains a high concentration of heavy metals, such as lead, which, when ingested by animals, slowly poisons it from the inside. Such environments are favorable places for the growth of infections, bacteria, E. coli and other pathological aquatic organisms. In these places, the level of acidity and alkalinity changes dramatically, and the chemical consumption of oxygen decreases several times due to the death of underwater inhabitants.

What are polluted

Most poisonings are attributed to human activity and industrial development. The secondary reason is natural disasters: landslides, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, which also pollute the water.

Industrial enterprises annually pour into rivers up to 10 tons of oil, 5 tons of mercury, dioxins, furans, arsenic, chlorine, copper, zinc, chromium, cadmium are released, which are released into rivers in the amount of 50,000 tons. The discovery of new pesticides and their wider distribution also pollute the waters, they accumulate in organisms.

Household human waste per year is 100,000 tons, and the amount of plastic and polyethylene reaches 2 million tons. Through rivers, garbage enters the oceans and forms garbage patches on maps larger than 1.5 million square meters. kilometers. There are 5 of them: in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.

Other causes of pollution:

accidents and catastrophes at industrial enterprises;
floods and floods;
natural organic waste in the form of animals, plants;
natural disasters like avalanches, landslides, mudflows;
acid rain;
overlapping of river flows by natural factors.

Waters affected by natural disasters and factors will soon be restored. And with pollution by chemical and household waste, nature is not always able to cope on its own, or it will take decades.

What are dangerous

Pollution has a direct impact and leads to the death of plants and animals. In other cases, heavy metals and other compounds gradually accumulate in the body, they can change the structure of DNA and cause developmental problems. Poisoned waters have a high carcinogenicity, cancerous tumors destroy the body of fish or get into human food.

In animals, the metabolism of energy and substances in the body is disrupted, the reaction slows down. Impact on the nervous system leads to psychological and physical illness. Behavior becomes uncontrollable, animals injure, kill themselves or attack larger opponents. The most famous example of nervous system disruption by waste is the mass beaching of whales due to oil contamination.

In animals, the reproductive function is also impaired. When poisoned by garbage, cubs are born dead or weak and quickly die. Waste disrupts the reproductive function of some types of crustaceans. Due to the deteriorating environment, they change sex to female, which stops reproduction and puts the species in danger of extinction.

human diseases

Poisoning the environment affects the people themselves, worsening their health. Bacteria and viruses spread through dirty water, causing epidemics of disease in the past and killing millions of people. Although now people are monitoring their health, many diseases also affect people through the waters of rivers:

Mental disorders due to the accumulation of heavy metals.
Reproductive diseases leading to infertility or the birth of sick and unviable children.
All types of typhus (typhus, typhoid, relapsing). It is characterized by mental disorders and poisoning with toxins.
Giardiasis is an intestinal disease caused by Giardia.
Enteroviral pathogen - picornavirus microorganisms.
Oncology.

Failure to comply with the rules of water purification in rivers can lead to outbreaks of new epidemics and the development of other diseases: gastritis, amoebiasis, cholera, endocrine problems, burns, blindness.

The dirtiest rivers in the world

Water spaces are most often polluted with garbage in developing countries, for example, in India, Indonesia, Bangladesh. But large countries, like the United States, also do not care about maintaining the purity of natural spaces.

The dirtiest rivers on Earth:

Citarum 300 km long, located in Indonesia. It has the largest water pollution in the world, it is considered the most poisoned river. The surface is completely covered with plastic bottles, household waste, garbage and dead fish. There are no living creatures in the water. But even with waste, the water area supplies the population of coastal cities and the capital Jakarta with water for rural and domestic services.
The Yellow River, the longest in China with a length of 5,464 km, on the banks of which the country's civilization first formed. The name was obtained due to the erosion of the soil layers by water, because of them the color of the liquid changed to yellow-brown. But now it has such a color not only because of the earth, but also as a result of the massive release of waste from nearby industrial enterprises. There are wide spots of oil production on the surface.
Ganges 2525 km long, India. Its water is considered sacred in the country and highly revered. But this does not prevent him from being one of the dirtiest water areas. The Hindus use the water for rituals, for drinking, for healing bathing, and even lower their deceased relatives on their last journey.
The Mississippi in the United States is 3,770 km long. The water area feeds the surrounding fertile lands, globally used for agricultural purposes. All waste generated is discharged into water streams. More than a million tons of nitrogen enter the river every year.
Royal River 1485 km long in Australia. In 1995, mining organizations began to open in the country, which poured production waste, mainly sulfides, into the river.
Buriganga is 18 km long in Bangladesh. The most poisoned in the country, the garbage in the river reaches the amount of 1.5 million tons daily. There is no life in water. Bangladesh has imposed a ban on further dumping of waste into the river, but this does not improve the condition of the water.
Maridao is 4,350 km long in the Philippines. In the country, this river is included in the list of 50 dead rivers. Waste from industrial enterprises located along the banks gets into the water. Local residents also use the water area as a dumping ground for household waste.

This list is incomplete and the rivers of a dozen more countries can be called dirty.

Ecologists tirelessly talk about the fact that the world is on the verge of a water crisis. But despite such depressing prospects, humanity is in no hurry to change its attitude to water resources. Some reservoirs are so polluted that it is no longer possible to bring them back to life. We bring to your attention the ten most polluted rivers in the world:

1. Citarum River, Indonesia

This is not a garbage dump - this is a river, which, by the way, is one of the main water arteries of Indonesia. Agree, in the list of the most polluted rivers in the world, it is not in vain in the first place! The river flows near the 9 million city of Jakarta, where there is no such luxury as garbage collection services or sewage treatment systems - all waste is sent directly to the water. It is hard to believe, but once the Citarum was full of life. Today, the water is almost invisible from under a thick layer of garbage, and the locals have already forgotten that there was once a fish.

2. Yamuna River, India

Yamuna - the largest tributary of the Ganges, flows through the Indian states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, and also crosses the capital New Delhi, which dumps about 60% of all garbage produced by the city into the river. The Indian government is trying to solve the problem of pollution of the Yamuna and even investing a lot of money in this good cause, but all efforts to clean up the river are in vain.

3. Ganges River, India

It is no wonder that the Ganges itself, given the deplorable state of its tributaries, was on the "black" list. The rapid growth of the population of India, the development of industry in the absence of modern treatment systems - these factors, of course, adversely affect the state of the country's main river. In response, the Ganges "rewards" local residents with diseases such as cholera, hepatitis, typhoid and dysentery. About 80% of all health problems and a third of deaths in India are due to poor water quality.

4. Buriganga River, Bangladesh

Buriganga - another "metropolitan" river, flows near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Buriganga is rightfully considered one of the most polluted rivers in the world: its water cannot be not only drunk, but even used for technical purposes. Despite the country's ban on dumping waste into rivers, Buriganga receives about 1.5 million cubic meters of industrial waste every day. It is clear that with such an attitude, this river has long turned into a biologically dead channel.

5. "Yellow River", China

The Yellow River is the second largest river in China and is the source of drinking water for millions of people in Northern China. True, how the population manages to use this resource for domestic purposes is completely incomprehensible, because the Yellow River is heavily polluted with oil products.

6. Marilao River, Philippines

The waters of this river are not just polluted - they are life-threatening as they contain various toxins such as chromium, cadmium, copper and arsenic. Despite attempts by the authorities to contain the pollution of the Marilao with a system of fines, the local population, as well as numerous businesses, continue to shamelessly use this river as a dumping ground.

7. Songhua River, China

The river in northern China, the largest tributary of the Amur in terms of water content, flows into it from the right along the stream. On the Songhua River are the cities of Jilin, Harbin, Jiamusi. In November 2005, Sungari was contaminated with benzene. An environmental disaster led to the closure of Harbin's water supply.

8. Mississippi River, USA

This greatest river in the world has not escaped the fate of pollution either. A major economic and natural resource for the United States, the Mississippi adds thousands of tons of nitrogen pollution to the Gulf of Mexico each year.

9. Sarno River, Italy

Sarno flows south of Pompeii and empties into the Gulf of Naples at Castella Mare di Stabia. Large-scale dumping of untreated agricultural and industrial waste makes this river the most polluted in Europe.

10. King's River, Australia

They treat this river in a completely unroyal way: the water artery is polluted with chemical waste from the mining industry. Since 1995, about 1.5 million tons of sulphides have entered the Royal River annually.