Breathing poison in the world's most polluted city

[Manindra]

okay, compare lahore to delhi....I think lahore wins.

There is no restriction on poor people coming into islamabad. Islamabad has poor people too. It is like any other city of pakistan, except supposedly cleaner. There is if I remember correctly a ban on rickshaws/wagons etc in Islamabad.

Comparing parameter is ?

 

[Faiez]

Comparing parameter is ?

air pollution....

 

[Mr.Nair]

Sorry... foreign tourists dont take your 2 cents and keep going to delhi

The guy who started this thread stop driving his car and not going in road thinking of any accident which can happen.

I think tourism did fall by a good number. Any way, foreign tourists should only go to the civilized south India rather than the north. Just my 2 cents.

Sorry to disappoint you, in fact the foerign tourist arrival in delhi increased to a staggering figure 32.4 %

Growth in number of foreign tourist arrivals - The Times of India

 

[Manindra]

air pollution....

Only Air Pollution does not make some city better neither my home town beat Mumbai anyday.
Btw there are some drastic measure taken which control Delhi Air & water pollution significantly.

 

[Echo_419]

Not really, the Rhine region in Germany would beat Delhi hands down in terms of industry and value.

More to do with shyt pollution control laws and above all the brick kilns that generate the massive amounts of large particulate smoke.

Abe gerneny koh hamse nah compare kara kar
On topic
This is a man made tragedy & can be solved in months by simply changing some laws

 

[Donatello]

Abe gerneny koh hamse nah compare kara kar
On topic
This is a man made tragedy & can be solved in months by simply changing some laws

This cannot be solved in months, sometimes the climate doesn't allow. For example, Karachi has poor air quality as well and technically it must be much worse than say Lahore/Faisalabad, as it is much more industrialized. However, the all year round breeze from the seas help carry that smog away, so Karachi has better air quality than what it would be if it were in a not so windy zone. Cities in North India/Pakistan suffer especially in winters because that fog mixes up with smoke particles and makes it thicker. In order to stop that from happening you'd need serious pollution control laws with regards to transportation, factories and kilns.....which given the nature our development would be a costly issue. Ever wondered why the most polluted places in the world belong in the developing world?

 

[Echo_419]

This cannot be solved in months, sometimes the climate doesn't allow. For example, Karachi has poor air quality as well and technically it must be much worse than say Lahore/Faisalabad, as it is much more industrialized. However, the all year round breeze from the seas help carry that smog away, so Karachi has better air quality than what it would be if it were in a not so windy zone. Cities in North India/Pakistan suffer especially in winters because that fog mixes up with smoke particles and makes it thicker. In order to stop that from happening you'd need serious pollution control laws with regards to transportation, factories and kilns.....which given the nature our development would be a costly issue. Ever wondered why the most polluted places in the world belong in the developing world?

Okay then a couplue of years
Just look at the main reasons heavy trucks passing through Delhi( to divert them central govt has okayed the construction of 2 new highways)
Old vehicles (NGT is trying to get them banned)
Polluted industries ( NGOS are trying hard but it will be tough to shut em down)
Burning of agri waste & other waste & brick kind
Construction activity using old tech
These are one of the main reasons for the pollution & every single one of them can be solved in months

 

[ghoul]

Sorry to disappoint you, in fact the foerign tourist arrival in delhi increased to a staggering figure 32.4 %

Growth in number of foreign tourist arrivals - The Times of India

They probably want to get gang raped.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Aha!


According to the report by World Health Organization (WHO), In 2010, some 223,000 people around the world died from lung cancer caused by exposure to air pollution. And more than half of those deaths are believed to have been in China and elsewhere in East Asia. WHO released a list of world’s 10 most polluted cities. The list includes four Iranian cities, three Pakistani, two Indian and one city of Mongolia and Botswana.

The 10 most polluted cities in the World

World Health Organization (WHO) is authoritative in this agenda. The latest 2014 Report has been released, which looked at the air pollution levels of 1,600 cities across 91 countries. Based on PM2.5 reading (considered the best indicator of assessing health impacts from air pollution and examines the concentration of fine particulate pollution of 2.5 micrometers or less in diameter), their results are as below:

Ambient (outdoor) air pollution in cities database 2014
WHO | Ambient (outdoor) air pollution in cities database 2014

Out of the 1,600 cities surveyed, top 20 cities with highest PM 2.5 are as below:
1. Delhi, India: 153
2. Patna, India: 149
3. Gwalior, India: 144
4. Raipur, India: 134
5. Karachi, Pakistan: 117
6. Peshwar, Pakistan: 111
7. Rawalpindi, Pakistan: 107
8. Khoramabad, Iran: 102
9. Ahmedabad, India: 100
10. Lucknow, India: 96
11. Firozabad, India: 96
12. Doha, Qatar: 93
13. Kanpur, India: 93
14. Amritsar, India: 92
15. Ludhiana, India: 91
16. Igdir, Turkey: 90
17. Narayonganj, Bangladesh: 89
18. Allahabad, India: 88
19. Agra, India: 88
20. Khanna, India: 88​

As some cities from China are also quite high on the list (Lanzhou #36, Urumqi #61, Xi'an #70,Xining #72, Beijing #76), I guess that's a price to pay for 3 decades of massive industrialization (China's manufacturing value added is over $2,941 billions, World Bank 2013) and infrastructure spree, and more efforts are needed to revamp the situation.

 

[Donatello]

@Donatello I love you. Do you love me?

Depends on whether you are a blonde woman, with Jennifer Connelly figure types.

 

[Asian.Century]

Which things make pollution in air?

Air pollution can result from both human and natural actions. Natural events that pollute the air include forest fires, volcanic eruptions, wind erosion, pollen dispersal, evaporation of organic compounds and natural radioactivity. Pollution from natural occurrences is not very often.

http://eschooltoday.com/pollution/air-pollution/causes-of-air-pollution.html