Children swimming in a mine tailings pond contaminated with

Mine tailings in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

A chemical manufacturing plant in China

The ore processing facility at a gold mine

Children collecting water contaminated with mercury

Mercury and gold flake

A child crushes gold core in his kitchen

A worker pans for gold with mercury

Tailings pond from a large-scale gold mine

Mercury mine waste in Southwest Kyrgyzstan

A miner holds elemental mercury

Water polluted by industrial activity

Local workers remove soil contaminated with lead in a village in Northwest Nigeria

A small-scale lead smelter in Vietnam

Wastewater from an industrial estate flowing in an open drain

Broken battery casings store out in the open

Truck carrying mine waste containing lead and other heavy metals

Workers covered in oil from electronics manufacturing

An abandoned mine with legacy lead pollution in Honduras

A lake polluted by mining

A lead-zinc mining facility in China

Solid waste outside of an industrial estate

An informal ULAB recycling area in Indonesia

A child melting the recovered lead from a used battery

People scavange from waste at a large dump site in India

Children play near a lead smelter in an area contaminated with

Discarded lead-acid battery cases

A large-scale lead smelter in southwestern Russia

Lead slag from a shelter

A man with a used battery case as a water tank in Indonesia

Burning used batteries to recover the lead

Informal lead smelting in Indonesia

Emptied pesticides bottles

Children play near a pesticide storage facility

Drinking water contaminated with pesticides

Skin problems caused by pesticide exposure

Solid waste from pesticide manufacturing

An abandoned pesticide production facility in Ukraine

Children play near water containing pesticides

Decaying bins full of obsolete pesticides

Dangerous pesticides spoiling out of their containers

Untreated effluent from an industrial estate

Yellow ground water containing chromium near a chemical manufacturing facility

A pile of chromium sludge dumped outside a tannery

Workers at a dye facility in India

Tannery waste flows through an open canal in Dhaka, Bangladesh

A worker processes hides at a tannery

Red wastewater from a dyeing facility in India

Children walk barefoot through tannery wastewater

Untreated effluent from industry is dumped into a lake

A child drinks from a well in Nepal contaminated

Children in a town with arsenic contaminated water

Children in a town with arsenic contaminated water

Women pumping water from a well contaminated with arsenic

A mine tailings pond contaminated with arsenic

Saturated soil from an oil spill

A uranium mine in the Ukraine

Tailings containing cadmium at a mine in the Phillines