Dhaka most polluted city in the world-
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has been positioned most elevated in the US Air Quality Index (AQI), for having the most exceedingly awful level of air contamination on the planet.
As per information accessible from a cell phone application named AirVisual, which demonstrates the client constant air contamination list of any city over the globe, Dhaka can be found at the highest point of the outline constantly, implying abnormal state of air contamination.
An ongoing guide of the US AQI, found on online interfaces aqicn.org and waqi.info additionally bolstered the information appeared by the cell phone application.
Till the documenting of this report, US AQI of Dhaka was remaining at 608.
A report distributed by the Clean Air and Sustainable Environment (CASE) Project under the Department of Environment demonstrated that the AQI of Dhaka remained at 387 on January 28, 2018.
The file terms the air nature of Dhaka is greatly undesirable, as the city reliably positions between 301 to 500 territory.
Remarking on the issue, Md Ziaul Haque, executive (Air quality administration), Department of Environment stated: "There is no preventing that the quality from claiming air in Dhaka is very horrible. The air quality began dropping since October, 2017.
"No less than a thousand block ovens venture up generation in and around the city amid winter and that is one reason behind the awful air quality here."
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) built up the Air Quality Index to report air quality. This AQI is isolated into six classifications, showing expanding levels of wellbeing concern.
An AQI esteem more than 300 speaks to risky air quality and beneath 50 the air quality is great.
The record depends on the five criteria poisons managed under the Clean Air Act- - ground-level ozone, particulate issue, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide.
The AQI appeared in 1968, when the National Air Pollution Control Administration embraced an activity to build up an air quality list and to apply the technique to Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
0 comments:
Post a Comment