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ISLAMABAD: A new World Bank report has identified six major airsheds in South Asia where spatial interdependence in air quality is high, and one of the airsheds identified in Pakistan is Punjab, which gets on average 30 per cent of the air pollution from the Indian state of Punjab under the predominant wind direction from the northwest to the southeast.

An airshed is the volume over an area of land in which airborne chemicals travel to reach a particular river, lake, bay, or other body of water given the area of the land surface.

Further airsheds in Pakistan where spatial interdependence in air quality is high are the northern/central Indus River plain and south Pakistan located in southern Indus plain.

According to the report released on Wednesday, although air pollution travels far in South Asia, it does not uniformly disperse over the continent, but gets trapped in large airsheds.

The report, “Striving for Clean Air: Air Pollution and Public Health in South Asia”, says accounting for the interdependence in air quality within airsheds in South Asia is necessary when weighing alternative pathways for pollution control and analysed four alternative pathways for reducing air pollution in South Asia.

South Asia is home to nine of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution, which causes an estimated two million premature deaths across the region each year and incurs significant economic costs. There are economically feasible, cost-effective solutions to achieve clean air in the region, but this requires countries to coordinate policies and investments, the report says.

It says concentrations of fine particulate matter such as soot and small dust in some of the region’s most densely populated and poor areas are up to 20 times higher than what WHO considers healthy.

Large industries, power plants and vehicles are dominant sources of air pollution around the world, but in South Asia, other sources make substantial additional contributions.

These include combustion of solid fuels for cooking and heating, emissions from small industries such as brick kilns, burning of municipal and agricultural waste, and cremation.

The report says regional cooperation could help implement cost-effective joint air pollution strategies that leverage spatial interdependence in air quality.

Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2022
 
ISLAMABAD: A new World Bank report has identified six major airsheds in South Asia where spatial interdependence in air quality is high, and one of the airsheds identified in Pakistan is Punjab, which gets on average 30 per cent of the air pollution from the Indian state of Punjab under the predominant wind direction from the northwest to the southeast.

An airshed is the volume over an area of land in which airborne chemicals travel to reach a particular river, lake, bay, or other body of water given the area of the land surface.

Further airsheds in Pakistan where spatial interdependence in air quality is high are the northern/central Indus River plain and south Pakistan located in southern Indus plain.

According to the report released on Wednesday, although air pollution travels far in South Asia, it does not uniformly disperse over the continent, but gets trapped in large airsheds.

The report, “Striving for Clean Air: Air Pollution and Public Health in South Asia”, says accounting for the interdependence in air quality within airsheds in South Asia is necessary when weighing alternative pathways for pollution control and analysed four alternative pathways for reducing air pollution in South Asia.

South Asia is home to nine of the world’s 10 cities with the worst air pollution, which causes an estimated two million premature deaths across the region each year and incurs significant economic costs. There are economically feasible, cost-effective solutions to achieve clean air in the region, but this requires countries to coordinate policies and investments, the report says.

It says concentrations of fine particulate matter such as soot and small dust in some of the region’s most densely populated and poor areas are up to 20 times higher than what WHO considers healthy.

Large industries, power plants and vehicles are dominant sources of air pollution around the world, but in South Asia, other sources make substantial additional contributions.

These include combustion of solid fuels for cooking and heating, emissions from small industries such as brick kilns, burning of municipal and agricultural waste, and cremation.

The report says regional cooperation could help implement cost-effective joint air pollution strategies that leverage spatial interdependence in air quality.

Published in Dawn, December 16th, 2022
Pollution and climate change are two things that our countries should work on jointly. You went through a devastating flood and it can happen again to any of our countries.
 
Farmers mkl'dey fasal ka kachra jo jala rahe.

Indian farming should be handed over to responsible corporations like Reliance etc and these scumbag polluter kisaans should be jailed and their land zapt karofied.
 
Farmers mkl'dey fasal ka kachra jo jala rahe.

Indian farming should be handed over to responsible corporations like Reliance etc and these scumbag polluter kisaans should be jailed and their land zapt karofied.
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I am curious, how do Pakistani farmers deal with the stubble?
 
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Cant change the climate over punjab can we?

Its simply a matter of economics,Indian punjab despite being smaller than Pakistani punjab, grows more crops for more farming profits. I'm pretty sure the farmers in pakistan punjab would love to grow more and sell more, if given a chance.
 
Cant change the climate over punjab can we?

Its simply a matter of economics,Indian punjab despite being smaller than Pakistani punjab, grows more crops for more farming profits. I'm pretty sure the farmers in pakistan punjab would love to grow more and sell more, if given a chance.

Puddu, gaal etay pollution di hori, te tu dujay paasay awein avdi yavon aa gayan…
 
Putt, age tur hun, ja mirasiya warge da galiyan te lad.

No fun talking to an uneducated failure, you have nothing to offer but street fight invitations :lol:

Off topic post about Indian Punjab producing more crops than Pakistan Punjab was a cheap flex.

Thread is about pollution.

If you want to talk about crop production we can do that right here.

A quarter of Punjab in Pakistan is in mountains. A quarter is near Khewra salt mines( salted land produce no crops genius) a quarter is desert and the rest doesn’t get sufficient water.

Learn some geography and use that head of yours.. :lol:

Anyways, check out kino in my pind..

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/my-pind-lookin-like-karanchi.747178/
 
So sad. Maybe shouldnt cope about it and instead focus on how to dampen its effect
 
Cant change the climate over punjab can we?

Its simply a matter of economics,Indian punjab despite being smaller than Pakistani punjab, grows more crops for more farming profits. I'm pretty sure the farmers in pakistan punjab would love to grow more and sell more, if given a chance.

Pakistan punjab grows more crops, check out wheat, corn, cotton, rice etc and combine them. India punjab is only known for good wheat production. And huge chunk of Pak punjab is desert unlike Indian punjab.
 
@Catalystic

Maybe you guys need to experience some of it

We do. We experience far more floods, mainly in the East and NE parts of the country and heavy cyclones too. The only difference is that since India is a large country, other parts can chip in to support the flood affected parts. That is why it doesnt appear in international papers so often.

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