Top 5 Most Polluted Rivers In the World

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Sarno River in Italy

  • 15 miles long
  • Mouth is the tyrrhenian sea
  • Source is the Sarno
  • The pollution is the dumping of untreated agriculture and industrial waste

Citarum River in Indonesia

  • 170 miles long
  • Mouth is the Java sea
  • everyday 20,000 tons of waste & waste water are dumped into the citarum
  • 2,000 factories are disposed into the river
  • Dead animals & trash float on top of the river

Passaic River in New Jersey

  • 80 miles long
  • The source is the Mendham
  • The mouth is Newark Bay
  • Manufacturing left behind layers of dioxin, mercury, PCBs, and a bunch of other harmful contaminants in the sediment

Ganga River in India

  • 1,569 miles long
  • Mouth is the Ganges delta
  • The pollution is mainly untreated sewage

Mataza River in Argentina

  • 40 miles long
  • Buenos aires province is the source
  • Mouth is the rio de la plata
  • 6,000 factories discharge waste into the river
  • Some people who live on the river get diseases