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Environmental Problems Delhi: India

This document discusses air pollution in Delhi, India. It states that air pollution in Delhi is caused mainly by industry and vehicular traffic. Over 10,000 people in Delhi may die prematurely each year due to air pollution. While city authorities claim pollution levels have decreased with initiatives like expanded public transportation, a recent study found the primary contributors to air pollution are road dust at 50% and industry at 23%, while vehicles only account for 7%. Controlling pollution from industries, including power plants within Delhi, remains a challenge.

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Environmental Problems Delhi: India

This document discusses air pollution in Delhi, India. It states that air pollution in Delhi is caused mainly by industry and vehicular traffic. Over 10,000 people in Delhi may die prematurely each year due to air pollution. While city authorities claim pollution levels have decreased with initiatives like expanded public transportation, a recent study found the primary contributors to air pollution are road dust at 50% and industry at 23%, while vehicles only account for 7%. Controlling pollution from industries, including power plants within Delhi, remains a challenge.

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INTRODUCTION

Pollution refers to the contamination of the


earth's environment with materials that
interfere with human health, quality of life or
the natural functioning of the ecosystems. The
major forms of pollution include water
pollution, air pollution, noise pollution and soil
contamination. Other less-recognised forms
include thermal pollution and radioactive
hazards. It is difficult to hold any one particular
form responsible for maximum risk to health;
however, air and water pollution appear to be
responsible for a large proportion of pollution
related health problems.
Of late, the air pollution status in Delhi has
undergone many changes in terms of the levels
of pollutants and the control measures taken to
reduce them. This paper provides an evidencebased insight into the status of air pollution in
Delhi and its effects on health and control
measures instituted.
Environmental problems in Delhi, India, are
a threat to the well-being of the city's and
area's inhabitants as well as the flora and
fauna.
Delhi,
the fifth-most
populated
metropolis in the world, is one of the most
heavily polluted cities in India, having for
instance one of the country's highest volumes
of particulate matter pollution.

Overpopulation and the ensuing overuse of


scarce resources such as water put heavy
pressure on the environment. The city suffers
from air pollution caused by road dust and
industry, with
comparatively
smaller
contributions
from
unclean
engines
in
transportation, especially diesel-powered city
buses and trucks, and 2-wheelers and 3wheelers
with
two-stroke
engines.Noise
pollution comes mainly from motorcycle and
automobile traffic. Water pollution and a lack of
solid waste treatment facilities have caused
serious damage to the river on whose banks
Delhi grew, the Yamuna. Besides human and
environmental damage, pollution has caused
economic damage as well; Delhi may have lost
the competition to host the 2014 Asian
Games because of its poor environment.
Air pollution in Delhi is caused mainly by
industry and vehicular traffic. As many as
10,000 people a year may die prematurely in
Delhi as a result of air pollution. The
1997 White Paper sponsored by the Ministry of
Environment and Forests already proposed
various measures to bring down pollution
caused by traffic, including smoothing the flow
of traffic with parking regulations and bringing
down total traffic by mandatory limits on
driving. City authorities claim to have had
some success in bringing down air pollution; for

instance, during the bidding process for the


2014 Asian Games, the city's organizing
committee had claimed that "pollution levels
had come down drastically in Delhi with the
arrival of Metro rail as well as all public
transport vehicle being run compulsorily on
compressed natural gas."
For traffic related sources, growth in vehicle
numbers and mileage seems to outpace efforts
to reduce emissions.Contrary to popular belief,
most of the air pollution in Delhi is not due to
vehicular
traffic.
Main
contributors
to particulate matter in the PM10 range, as a
recent study shows, are road dust (50%) and
industry (23%)--vehicles accounted for only
7%. Among industrial contributors, power
plants within Delhi city limits were the main
culprits.

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