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-In its 2007 report, ''The World’s Worst Polluted Places'' issued on September 16, the Blacksmith Institute included [[Meycauayan]] and [[Marilao]] in [[Bulacan]], [[Philippines]], in the list of the world’s thirty most [[polluted]] [[Location (geography)|places]] in the [[developing]] world.[http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/wwpp2007/finalReport2007.pdf ''The World’s Worst Polluted Places''] It stated: "Industrial waste is haphazardly dumped into the Marilao, Meycauayan, and [[Obando, Bulacan|Obando]] River system, a source of drinking and agricultural water supplies for the 250,000 people living in and around” the Meycauayan-Marilao area."<ref>[http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=89091  Inquirer.net, Meycauayan, Marilao in world’s ‘Dirty 30’-- report]</ref>
+In its 2007 report, ''The World’s Worst Polluted Places'' issued on September 16, the Blacksmith Institute included [[Meycauayan]] and [[Marilao]] in [[Bulacan]], [[Philippines]], in the list of the world’s thirty most [[polluted]] [[Location (geography)|places]] in the [[developing]] world.[http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/wwpp2007/finalReport2007.pdf ''The World’s Worst Polluted Places''] It stated: "Industrial waste is haphazardly dumped into the Marilao, Meycauayan, and [[Obando, Bulacan|Obando]] River system, a source of drinking and agricultural water supplies for the 250,000 people living in and around” the Meycauayan-Marilao area."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=89091 |title=Inquirer.net, Meycauayan, Marilao in world’s ‘Dirty 30’-- report |date= |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref>
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{{Infobox Organization
|name         = Blacksmith Institute <hr>
|image        = Blacksmith print rgb large.jpg
|type         =  International [[NGO]]
|formation    = 1999
|leader_title= President
|leader_name = [[Richard Fuller (Founder, Blacksmith Institute)|Richard Fuller]]
|location     = [[New York City]], [[New York]]
|website      = [http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org www.blacksmithinstitute.org]
}}
Founded in 1999, '''Blacksmith Institute''' is an international non-for-profit organization dedicated to eliminating life-threatening pollution in the developing world. Blacksmith identifies and cleans up the world's worst polluted places, focusing on communities where children are most at risk. Based in New York, Blacksmith has completed over 50 cleanup projects around the world. Blacksmith is currently engaged in over 30 projects in 15 countries.

In 2011 Blacksmith was recognized with the UN-backed [http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38428&Cr=disaster&Cr1=risk Green Star Award] for its work in environmental emergencies. In 2010, Blacksmith's work was profiled in [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2024212,00.html Time magazine's Power of One] column and in April 2012, nationally syndicated columnist Georgie Anne Geyer wrote about Blacksmith in [http://www.uexpress.com/georgieannegeyer/?uc_full_date=20120416 "Heroic NGO Takes on Big Job of Global Toxic Cleanup."]

Blacksmith is known for its annual [http://www.worstpolluted.org World's Worst Polluted Places Reports], for the creation of the ''Blacksmith Index'' (used around the world to rate levels of health risk from pollution), and for the ''Blacksmith database'', the only resource of its kind, which currently documents over 600 of the world's worst polluted places. This ''Polluted Places Initiative'' identifies polluted sites throughout the world by means of an online nomination process.<ref>{{cite news  
| last=  Harvey
| first=  Fiona 
| url=  http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1d4c0916-6156-11dc-bf25-0000779fd2ac.html
| title=  Planet’s most polluted sites unveiled
| publisher=  [[The Financial Times]]
| date=  2007-09-12
| accessdate=  
}}</ref>

Blacksmith is currently expanding their database with the Global Toxic Site Identification Program, formerly known as  [http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blacksmith-institute-to-lead-global-inventory-of-polluted-sites.html Global Inventory Project]. Blacksmith investigators are assessing polluted hotspots in over 60 countries to build the first comprehensive global inventory of the world's worst polluted places with human health impact. The sites identified in this global inventory will be targeted for cleanup under a global alliance.

==The GAHP (Global Alliance on Health and Pollution)==
In  July 2012, Blacksmith convened [http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/blog/?p=1025 a third meeting of world leaders] and experts on pollution at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy to develop an action plan to tackle toxic pollution in low- and middle-income countries.  The newly-formed [http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/new-global-alliance-seeks-to-tackle-toxic-pollution-hotspots.html Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP)] is the first alliance of its kind to respond to the threat of toxic pollution on a worldwide scale. The GAHP is coordinated by Blacksmith Institute, and supported by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and UNIDO, among other agencies. Blacksmith began coordinating an international effort to create a global alliance in 2008.  The effort was formerly called the [http://www.hpfund.org Health and Pollution Fund].

==Blacksmith Success Stories==
Below are some examples of [http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/success-stories.html successful interventions]
* Cleanup of the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando River system in the Philippines, polluted with heavy metals from industrial waste.
* Cleanup of Haina in the Dominican Republic, a city that has been referred to as the ''Dominican Chernobyl'' because of its excessive levels of lead pollution.
* Reduction of toxic mercury emissions from [[artisanal mining|artisanal]] gold mining in Manica, [[Mining in Mozambique|Mozambique]].
* Establishing Air Quality Plan for Cambodia.
* Lead gasoline phase out in Senegal.
* Lead Pollution in Kabwe, Zambia.
* Cleanup of groundwater pollution in Kanpur, India.
* Cleanup of an estimated 3,000 tons of hazardous industrial wastes in Muthia village, Ahmedabad City, India.
* Removal of radioactive waste in Krasnoufimsk in the Central Urals, Russia.
* Remediation of arsenic mines in Wenshan, China.
* Remediation of old uranium mining sites in Romanovka Village, Russia.

==World's Worst Polluted Places Reports==
Since 2006, Blacksmith Institute's yearly reports have been instrumental in increasing public understanding of the health impacts posed by the world's worst polluted places, and in some cases, have compelled cleanup work at these sites.  Previous reports have identified the top ten world's worst polluted places or pollution problems. The 2009 report focuses on ''12 Cases of Cleanup and Success.'' Blacksmith reports have been issued jointly with Green Cross Switzerland since 2007. Read or download reports at www.worstpolluted.org [http://www.worstpolluted.org]

===2011 report: The Top Ten of the Toxic Twenty===
The report lists the worst toxic pollution problems according to human health impact. The evaluation is based on data collected by the Blacksmith Institute and the Swiss Green Cross.

Top Ten Worst Toxic Pollution Problems:

* Artisanal Gold Mining - Mercury
* Industrial Estates - Lead
* Agricultural Production- Pesticides
* Lead Smelting - Lead
* Tannery Operation - Chromium
* Mining and Ore Processing - Mercury
* Mining and Ore Processing - Lead
* Lead-Acid Battery Recycling - Lead
* Naturally Occurring Arsenic in Ground Water - Arsenic
* Pesticide Manufacturing and Storage - Pesticide

===2010 report: Top Six Toxic Threats===
The report identifies and quantifies the impacts of the most damaging toxic pollutants. The [http://www.worstpolluted.org/ Top Six Toxic Threats] are:
* Lead
* Mercury
* Chromium
* Arsenic
* Pesticides
* Radionuclides

===2009 report: 12 Cases of Cleanup and Success===
The report lists 10 programs, unranked, as examples of successful efforts to reduce the toll of pollution on human health. It also includes two initiatives with worldwide impact.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}}

* Improving [[indoor air pollution|indoor air]] - [[Accra]], [[Ghana]]
* Preventing mining pollution - [[Candelaria, Chile|Candelaria]], [[Chile]]
* Lowering [[radioactivity]] - [[Chernobyl]], [[Ukraine]]
* Cleaning urban air - [[Delhi]], [[India]]
* Removing [[lead poisoning|lead]] - [[Bajos de Haina|Haina]], [[Dominican Republic]]
* Recapturing [[mercury poisoning|mercury]] - [[Kalimantan]], [[Indonesia]]
* Reducing lead - [[Rudnaya Pristan]], [[Russia]]
* Removing [[DDT]] - [[Old Korogwe]], [[Tanzania]]
* Restoring a waterway - [[Shanghai]], [[China]]
* Removing [[arsenic]] - [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
* Phasing out [[leaded gasoline]] - Worldwide
* Ending [[chemical weapons]] - Worldwide

===2008 report: Top Ten World's Worst Pollution Problems===
*Artisanal Gold Mining
*Contaminated Surface Water
*Indoor Air Pollution
*Industrial Mining Activities
*Groundwater Contamination
*Metals Smelting and Processing
*Radioactive Waste and Uranium Mining
*Untreated Sewage
*Urban Air Quality
*Used Lead Acid Battery Recycling

===2006 and 2007 reports:  Top Ten World's Worst Polluted Places===
As of September 2007, the Institute lists the following as the world's ten most polluted places (in alphabetical order by country):<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/ten.php|publisher=The Blacksmith Institute|title=World's Worst Polluted Places 2007|date=September 2007|accessdate=2007-09-13}}</ref>

*[[Sumqayit]], [[Azerbaijan]]
*[[Linfen]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]
*[[Tianying]], [[People's Republic of China|China]]
*[[Sukinda]], [[India]]
*[[Vapi]], [[India]] (Update: Removed from list due to significant improvements {{Citation needed|date=January 2013}})
*[[La Oroya]], [[Peru]]
*[[Dzerzhinsk, Russia|Dzerzhinsk]], [[Russia]]
*[[Norilsk]], [[Russia]]
*[[Chernobyl]], [[Ukraine]]
*[[Kabwe]], [[Zambia]]

'''Also mentioned'''
*[[Godwin, Kenya|Godwin]], [[Kenya]]
* [[Matanza River|Matanza]], [[Argentina]]
* [[Hazaribagh]], [[India]]
* [[DongYangHuaxi]], [[China]]
* [[Lanzhou]], [[China]]
* [[Urumqi]], [[China]]
* [[Wanshan Special District|Wanshan]], [[China]]
* [[Bajos de Haina|Haina]], [[Dominican Republic]]
* [[Oriente (Ecuador)|Oriente]], [[Ecuador]]
* [[Mahad Industrial Estate]], [[India]]
* [[Ranipet]], [[India]]
* [[Ust-Kamenogorsk]], [[Kazakhstan]]
* [[Mailuu-Suu]], [[Kyrgyzstan]]
* [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]
* [[Huancavelica]], [[Peru]]
* [[Meycauayan]], [[Philippines]]
* [[Marilao]], [[Philippines]]
* [[Bratsk]], [[Russia]]
* [[Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai|Chita]], [[Russia]]
* [[Magnitogorsk]], [[Russia]]
* [[Rudnaya Pristan]], [[Russia]]

The Institute has operated in China since 2002.<ref>China Development Brief: [http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/dingo/Province/Nationwide/1-58-0-30-0-0.html Directory of International NGOs]</ref>

'''World's "Dirty 30"'''

In its 2007 report, ''The World’s Worst Polluted Places'' issued on September 16, the Blacksmith Institute included [[Meycauayan]] and [[Marilao]] in [[Bulacan]], [[Philippines]], in the list of the world’s thirty most [[polluted]] [[Location (geography)|places]] in the [[developing]] world.[http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org/wwpp2007/finalReport2007.pdf ''The World’s Worst Polluted Places''] It stated: "Industrial waste is haphazardly dumped into the Marilao, Meycauayan, and [[Obando, Bulacan|Obando]] River system, a source of drinking and agricultural water supplies for the 250,000 people living in and around” the Meycauayan-Marilao area."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=89091 |title=Inquirer.net, Meycauayan, Marilao in world’s ‘Dirty 30’-- report |date= |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref>

==How Blacksmith Works==
Blacksmith works cooperatively around the world in partnerships that include governments, the international community, NGOs and local agencies to design and implement innovative, low-cost pollution solutions that save lives.  Blacksmith provides strategic, technical, and financial support to local champions working for the betterment of their communities. {{Citation needed|date=April 2012}}

The priority of Blacksmith is to work in locations throughout the developing world where human health is most affected by pollution.  Its programs involve a multi-step process that includes: 
* identifying polluted places in the developing world with nominations received from members of the international community and through the internet;
* assessing the health risks at those locations;
* and designing and implementing a remediation strategy tailored to the specifics of the site in question, using local champions to implement the project in a cooperative fashion.{{Citation needed|date=April 2012}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.blacksmithinstitute.org Blacksmith Institute]
*[http://www.worstpolluted.org World's Worst Polluted Places Reports]
*[http://www.hpfund.org Health and Pollution Fund]

;News
*[http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/blacksmith-institute/ ''Report Notes Few Toxic Cleanup Successes, New York Times Oct 29th 2009'']
*[http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=2636 ''A Dozen Countries Take on Toxic Pollution, Inter Press Service Oct 29, 2009'']
*[http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=can-the-worlds-most-polluted-places-09-10-29&amp;SID=mail&amp;sc=emailfriend ''Can the World's Most Polluted Places Ever Be Cleaned?, Scientific American Oct 29, 2009'']
*[http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE59R4BE20091028 ''Global Pollution-Fighters Find Scant Success, Reuters Oct 28, 2009'']
*[http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T132342.htm ''Toxic hotspots affect 600 million in developing world, Reuters, May 5, 2009'']

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