The booby prize this year for Dirtiest City in America goes to Fresno.
This Central Valley city suffers some of the worst air in the nation, and a water supply so degraded that the city used to tell pregnant women not to drink from the tap. Fresno epitomizes the environmental challenges of the Golden State. And it’s not alone. Plenty of its neighbors in central California like Modesto, Stockton and Bakersfield have it almost as bad.
The environmental degradation of the Central Valley has many contributing factors. First of all, its geography doesn’t do it any favors. It’s a big, long bowl surrounded on three sides by mountains that trap pollutants from cars and factories and oil fields in an inversion layer.
Second, it’s a victim of what brought people there in the first place — rich fertile soils from which grow much of America’s fruits and vegetables.
There is much more to this story from Forbes, to read about it and see other cities that made the list, CLICK HERE.
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