Mumbai has been ranked because the maximum-polluted metropolis in India and 2nd maximum polluted metropolis globally inside per week among January 29 and February 8, in line with Swiss air monitoring index IQAir, a real-time air pleasant monitor.
On January 29, Mumbai changed into ranked tenth withinside the scores for the poorest position. Mumbai then clinched the second one spot on February 2 earlier than falling withinside the following days. Then it once more rose to take the second one vicinity on February 8. On February 13, Mumbai took over Delhi because the maximum polluted metropolis in India and changed into the 0.33 maximum dangerous metropolis global for air pleasant global.
Mumbai Air pleasant:
`Poor’ and ‘Very Poor’ days in Mumbai among November and January this yr had been extra than double than they have been the earlier 3 winters, in line with CPCB records. As in keeping with the 2020 studies via way of means of National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) and IIT-Bombay, Road or production dirt is the purpose of extra than 71% of the particulate depend load in Mumbai’s air. factories, electricity plants, airports, and waste dumps contributed in making Mumbai’s air the filthiest to breathe.
What is IQAir?
IQAir, a Swiss air monitoring index and a real-time global air pleasant monitor, collaborates with UNEP and Greenpeace and measures air pleasant in India the use of records from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The towns are classified into ‘healthy’, dangerous’, and ‘hazardous’ as in keeping with US air pleasant index (AQI) standards, which can be extra stringent than in India.
Top 10 maximum-polluted towns global:
1. Lahore (Pakistan)
2. Mumbai (India)
3. Kabul (Afghanistan)
4. Kaohsiung (Taiwan)
5. Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
6. Accra (Ghana)
7. Krakow (Poland)
8. Doha (Qatar)
9. Astana (Kazakhstan)
10. Santiago (Chile)
