There's no doubt about it, pollution is a big problem all over the world. Garbage production alone is a concern, with the World Bank reporting that solid waste generation is on track to exceed 11 million metric tons per day by 2100. Smog, the result of highly polluted air, is a major public health issue in places such as Los Angeles, Mexico City, and various cities in China and Southeast Asia. And garbage and chemical dumping is a serious issue for water quality around the globe.These images, taken by photographers around the world, bring these problems into sharp focus by showing us the ways in which our youngest generation is forced to adapt to a polluted and garbage filled planet. From swimming in sludge-filled rivers to playing atop garbage heaps, these children show us just how big a clean up we have ahead of us.

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A nine-year-old kid named Paulo Henrique submerged in a garbage filled canal beneath one of those famous bridges, picking cans out ofthe filthy water so he could sell them. Recife, Brazil.

This boy swims in the garbage-infested waters of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad, looking for offerings thrown in by religious worshippers, India.

Water quality is a big concern in many countries around the world. Here, children wade in the garbage-filled Manila Bay in the Philippines.

This boy strolls through a polluted canal in Benguela,Angola.

This boy cannonballs into a polluted river in Jakarta, Indonesia, while piles of garbage drift by next to him.

These boys splash aroundin an open drainage ditch in Manila, Philippines.

These children ride their makeshift raft down a river of garbage in Jakarta, Indonesia.

A girl jumps from one garbage heap to another at a tannery in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
These waste products will be used to make feed for poultry, while the tannery which doesn't treat its waste water spews acids and heavy metals into the city's river.

Worldwide, more than 340,000 children under age 5 died from diarrheal diseases in 2013 due to a lack of safe water, sanitation and basic hygiene. That’s 1,000 deaths a day, according to the UN’s statistics. What’s more, the No. 1 killer of children between the ages of one month to 5years,pneumonia, can also be spread through a lack of hygiene.Although much improvement has been made in the past decade to aid children across the globe, there are still alarming numbers who do not have access to clean water, proper sanitation or even just a way to clean their hands especially after coming in contact with waste and feces.“A gram of feces can contain ten million viruses,” said Sanjay Wijesekera, Chief of Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, Programme Division at UNICEF. “Many diseases are transmitted by pathogens going from feces to food and fingers and so on, making children ill.”


A little girl and her brother play in a junkyard outside of Yangon, Myanmar.

Children of rag-pickers stand amid a heap of garbage on the outskirts of New Delhi.

Sile12:
Water quality is a big concern in many countries around the world. Here, children wade in the garbage-filled Manila Bay in the Philippines.

I knew it.. Indonesia and Philippine will surely be there.

One of the most basic hygiene problems that haunt developing communities is lackof adequate toilets. Around the world, about 2.5 billion people do not have propertoilets. Among them, 1 billion people defecate in the open in fields, bushes and bodies of water putting themselves and their community in danger of fecal-oral diseases, like hepatitis, cholera and dysentery.Children are especially susceptible to these diseases when their home and “playgrounds” are overrun with rubbish and human waste. In countries throughout Asia, children can be seen swimming in polluted stagnant waters, digging through trash and playing amid toxic substances at landfills.“When you have children running around barefeet, then coming in contact with excrete, it’s really easy to catch the worms and this of course impacts their development and growth,” said Dr. Aidan Cronin, Chief of the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program at UNICEF Indonesia.


Sometimes useful things can be found amongst the rubbish. These children sift through garbage along the railway tracks for recyclable materials in Karachi, Pakistan.



Children play amongst the garbage in a slum area of Karachi, Pakistan.

A boy swims in the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao,Shandong province.

Boys collect coconuts thrown in as offerings by worshippers in the waters of the Sabarmati River after the immersion of idols of the Hindu elephant god Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.

Many are accustomed to going about their day-to-day activities in contaminated environments. This child eats breakfast ona sofa in the middle of the a garbage dumpin Tondo, Philippines.


This boy pushes a cart full of charcoal, which was made at a garbage dump in Tondo, Philippines.

tdayof:
I knew it.. Indonesia and Philippine will surely be there.

Them they suffer for that country se?

Still expecting that of Haiti

Very unhygienic

Who took those pictures??