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Kyrgyzstan & Azerbaijan: Pollution

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 @ 20:56 UTC

by Nathan Hamm

Countries:: Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan
Topics:: Environment

Ben Paarman notes that Kyrgyzstan's Mailuu Suu has been listed as one of the ten most polluted sites on earth by a US environmental group. Elsewhere in Central Asia and the Caucasus, a site in Azerbaijan makes the list.

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Janice

Azerbaijan actually needs to do more about it’s industry. It’s better if they diversify the oil and gas industry, otherwise the economic crisis may come. Look at the RFER article appearing at HULIQ.com at http://www.huliq.com/151/azerbaijan-coping-with-the-oil-windfall

# 2006-11-21 at 13:08 pm

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