1. India
A country where, astoundingly, one in two people defecate in the open, is bound to have its waters contaminated to the point of being disease-ridden. While that’s bad enough, it’s not the only reason that this populated nation has ended up on our list. Yamuna River, which was once described by a Mughal Emperor as “better than nectar”, happens to be clogged with garbage, dumped with sewage and infected with chemicals to a disgusting extent. This is indeed a source of various types of organ damage, cancer, and other deleterious diseases. Not to mention Ranipet, India where a chromium factory left water so polluted in 1995 that it has still not recovered, causing India to become number one on our list of 13 most water polluted countries with the worst pollution in the world.
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