Air Pollution Analysis

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Air pollution has become the world’s largest single environmental health risk. The main reasons behind the degrading air quality are rapid urbanisation, construction activities, increasing population and increasing number of vehicles. The increasing air pollution makes it difficult for human beings to lead a healthier life. It has increased the risks of lung diseases, heart attacks, premature deaths and can even cause DNA mutations. The increasing trend of car ownership and use of vehicles have contributed significantly to this environmental problem. “Increased environmental and social costs of vehicle use, especially private car use, such as congestion, noise, air pollution, and depletion of energy are likely future consequences of the worldwide increasing trend in car ownership and use.” (Goodwin, 1996; Sperling, 1995).
In cities like Beijing and Delhi, this issue had already become a huge problem which needed to …show more content…

April 15- April 30,2016, the policy did not turn out to be effective. It was observed that during the second phase the air quality in the city had deteriorated and become worse. One of the reasons behind this was assumed to be the three-week fire at the largest garbage dump of the city i.e. Bhalaswa. Another reason contributing to this could’ve been the heavy commercial vehicles passing through the city which are responsible for most of city’s pollution due to vehicles (46%). The Delhi government hadn’t completely banned their movement through the city, the commercial vehicles could enter the city in the night time till early morning. It was also found later that the emissions from two wheelers was responsible for 33% of the total vehicular pollution, even more than petrol cars. Exemption of these made the policy less effective. A large part of three-wheelers also contributed to this which were running on kerosene. This ignorance from the Delhi authorities led to a failure of the second phase (Jain et al.,

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