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The Best Way to survive there a and in Many other Large cities a is to hold your breath. Generally experts say the bigger the City the worse the pollution. The world s two largest metropolitan regions a Tokyo Yokohama with nearly 29 million people and Mexico City wit More than 19 million people a Are among the most  decade ago 35 cities had population s of More than 4 tuesday january 8, 1991 million people by 2000-the number of  will. Nearly double. A a a a a a a a. A a. Most polluted cities Are in the developing world. Quot Large cities in developing countries Are growing much faster a than cities inthe industrialized world Ever have says Sharon l Camp vice president of the population crisis committee a non profit organisation advocating. Population stabilization. By the end of the 1990s the Urban population of the developing world will almost double that of the industrialized would by j095 it will be four times larger arid Africa s Urban population will be three times As great As North America s a it los Angeles almost synonymous with smog is a undisputed Day the most polluted  City. A in daily air pollution monitoring from 1987 to 1989. Californians los Angeles Anaheim Riverside area violated acceptable standards for both ground level Ozone and Carbon monoxide More Days than any other u s City the. Federal environment Protection Agency reports. The 17 other cities that violated both standards include. The largest u s. Urban areas. Ozone an . Smog is usually a greater threat in the summer. Concentrations of Carbon monoxide a problem in cities such As mile High Denver Are More hazardous in Winter worldwide the cities suffering the severest Fulfur dioxide pollution Are Milan Italy Shenyang China. Tehran Iran Seoul South Korea and Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo Brazil according to a 1988 air Quality report of the global environment monitoring system which is sponsored by the world health organization who and the United nations environment program an borne Fulfur dioxide comes chiefly from burning Coal. A the joint project monitors More than 40 geographically selected cities for five contaminants Fulfur dioxide dust nitrogen oxides Carbon monoxide and Lead mom to an half of the cities regularly exceed who standards for these pollutants global emissions of Carbon monoxide Are probably greater than those of All other major pollutants combined the study estimates that people living in one third of the Earth s cities Are exposed to marginal or unacceptable concentrations of Lead in the air despite worldwide Effort Quot to reduce Lead in gasoline the highest Lead Levels in gasoline were deter led in Mexico City dust filled air. Technically clogged with suspended a a particulate matter is worst in Kuwait City Xian China Beijing and new Delhi and Calcutta India. Q. Quot Many of the major cities of Eastern Europe have the / kind of pollution the United Stales had 30 to 50 years ago a sooty Smoky dirty air from economies Duvon , says Rudolf Husar director of the Center for air pollution Impact and trend analysis at Washington University in St Louis. U Quot because More Coal is consumed for heating air pollution is heaviest in the Winter Quot. A Fulfur dioxide is a dominant pollutant in Beijing where. Coal is the principal Power source. A we should see the biggest changes m Eastern f Europe As cities become More involved in getting pollution data. And cleaning up the air Quot says Gerald Akland of the Epa. Air Quality is expected to deteriorate in asian cities As Industrial activity intensifies there. Today the worlds five most unlivable cities Are Lagos Nigeria Kinshasa Zaire Kanpur India Dhaka. A. Bangladesh and Recife Brazil according to a study of the world s 100 largest metropolitan areas released by the population crisis committee in november about 60 percent of the largest metropolitan areas Are in the developing world. The committee ranked the cities using 10 criteria including the murder Rale food prices traffic congestion and air Quality.  three cities Melbourne and Sydney in Australia and Taipei Taiwan scored perfectly for All clean air indicators the poorest air hovers Over Calcutta new. Dehli Beijing Shenyang Tehran Milan Jakarta Indonesia air Quality data was unavailable for one third of the cities. A a a by contrast the study found the1 world s five most liable cities to be Melbourne. Montreal Seattle race my Atlanta and Thio Essen Dort round Duisburg metropolitan Complex m Germany s Ruhr Region the stars and stripes Page 13