ReportPollution.org

FIND POLLUTION. REPORT IT. GET RESULTS.

Help fight pollution in your community. See pollution? Upload a picture and description. Share it on social media. TAG your friends and challenge them to document pollution they see.

Use #ReportPollution, add your country name. #ReportPollutionMexico #ReportPollutionPhilippines

Pure Earth leaders will investigate reports, add toxic sites to the map, present to your country’s environmental authorities, and help them plan a cleanup.

Add your voice. Join people around the world letting leaders know that air, water & soil pollution, and the disease and death it causes, will no longer be tolerated. Every person, every child, has the right to a clean & safe environment free of toxic pollution.

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ReportPollution.org

FIND POLLUTION. REPORT IT. GET RESULTS.

Help fight pollution in your community. See pollution? Upload a picture and description. Share it on social media. TAG your friends and challenge them to document pollution they see.

Use #ReportPollution, add your country name. #ReportPollutionMexico #ReportPollutionPhilippines

Pure Earth leaders will investigate reports, add toxic sites to the map, present to your country’s environmental authorities, and help them plan a cleanup.

Add your voice. Join people around the world letting leaders know that air, water & soil pollution, and the disease and death it causes, will no longer be tolerated. Every person, every child, has the right to a clean & safe environment free of toxic pollution.

Air Pollution
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AQI

Air Pollution Data is a combination of Weather Data, Government and Private Air Quality Data, along with Satellite Data. The data source is Air Visual which compiles data on daily basis.

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Contaminated Sites
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Site location

Contaminated Sites Data shows sites investigated by trained investigators as part of Pure Earth’s Toxic Sites Investigation Program. This program is limited by budget and geographic focus of the funders and therefore only shows a small percentage of the toxic sites in Low and Middle-Income Countries. The data source is ContaminatedSites.org, updates show on this map automatically when sites are approved in that database.

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Water Pollution

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Pollution Deaths
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Pollution Deaths are given in Death or DALY metrics from the The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. Data is presented on a country by country basis, and can be sorted based on risk factors.

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Only a part of the pollution problem can be visualized here, as data is incomplete. For example, air pollution is reasonably well measured in the US and Europe. But in the developing world, only a few countries, and sometimes only a few cities measure their air quality adequately. You may think, as a result, that the US and Europe look more polluted, as they have many monitors. But this is not the case! In fact, countries with more monitors will probably have more programs to reduce pollution. Many countries do not have any monitors at all and could easily be highly polluted.

Similarly, contaminated site data (usually soil and heavy metals pollution) is available for only some low and middle-income countries. (Please also note that we have not listed any contaminated sites in the developed world intentionally). If you see few or zero contaminated sites in one country or city, this does not mean the place is free of them. Instead, it merely means that there has not been enough study done to find them.

In an effort to fill in the many gaps in the available data, citizens can add their own data, utilizing the ReportPollution.org website where citizen reports are uploaded and then reviewed by Pure Earth for potential investigation as part of its Toxic Sites Investigation Program. These nominations of pollution will be integrated, after validation, and scientific verification, into the Contaminated Sites feature of this site.

The app allows you to report air, water, soil, and other toxic pollution and associated health hazards in your area and share your report with friends, relevant agencies, and others. Take a picture, add emotion stickers and labels, learn who you can reach out to in your area, and add your report to the global pollution map. Save and edit your reports and share them anonymously or with your friends. The app is documenting polluted sites and reports of health effects so that action can be taken to reduce health risks.

Air pollution data set provided by AirVisual, spanning 9000+ cities globally, a list which is growing every day. The data set gets updated once daily.

WQI – UNEP/GEMS water and EEA Waterbase

The Global Environment Monitoring System for freshwater (GEMS/Water) provides the world community with sound data on fresh water quality to support scientific assessments and decision-making on the subject. Surface and ground water quality monitoring data collected from the global GEMS/Water monitoring network is shared through the GEMStat information system. Learn more at https://www.unep.org/gemswater/who-we-are/overview

A ranking system, the Blacksmith Index, ranks the severity of the site using a logarithmic scale. See these publications for detailed methodology.

A Simplified Risk-Ranking System for Prioritizing Toxic Pollution Sites in Low-and Middle-Income Countries