A boy and a girl stand by a littered pond in a refugee camp on an Azeri oil field near the village of Zabrat outside Baku.
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Moscow Added to Top 20 List of World Dirtiest Cities
Mercer Human Resource Consulting ranked Moscow the 14th dirtiest city of the world. The survey covered 215 cities worldwide, comparing them in view of the air pollution, waste management, water potability, hospital services, medical supplies and the presence of infectious disease.
Azerbaijan’s capital Baku led with the highest score of 27.6, which was blamed on the oil production. Azeri Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry is going to contest the ranking, claiming that the expert conclusion of Mercer Human Resource is very ambiguous.
Baku is followed by Dhaka (29.6), Bangladesh, while Madagascar’s Antanananvo (30.1) is the last of the dirtiest trio. Canada’s Calgary (131.7) has the best rating on the list. The scores are relative to New York that has 100.
Kazakhstan’s Almaty (39.1) has the ninth score, having done a bit better than Baghdad (39), where the wars and burning of oil deposits aggravated ecological environment.
As to Moscow, its ranking is attributed to the lack of normal tap water and air pollution of beyond all adequate limits.
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