A report on nuclear wastes, eleborated by the Worldwatch Institute, describe this lake as the most polluted place on earth. For years in a row, the Soviet Union was used as landfill for radioactive waste disposal, and now the radiation is so high that an unprotected person would receive a lethal dose after only one hour of exposure....

   After decades of mining and ore processing, Kabwe has turned into one place so toxic, that do not understand how people can live here. Rivers of water loaded with lead and cadmium are escaping from barren hills, poisoning everything. In the blood of children, lead levels 10 times higher than Western norms predict and contaminated soil is so bad, that people can not grow anything....