Question

WHAT CAN RESEARCHERS, GOVERNMENT AND NGO DO TO REDUCE POOR AIR QUALITY IN INDUSTRIALIZED CITIES?

Answer 1

Air pollution is causing major health problems in industrialised cities. Almost 30000 people die every year due to this. Various organisations take so many strategies to reduce air pollution. The are implementing various technologies to reduce air pollution they are described below;

- Technologies to reduce air pollution includes the use of lead free gasoline, which allows the use of catalytic convertors on vehicle exhaust systems. Such systems or technologies significantly reduce the amount of emissions of several air pollutants from vehicles. For buses, trucks and an increasing number of smaller vehicles that use diesel, improving the quality of the diesel itself by lowering it's sulfur content is another way to reduce air pollution at the source.

- More fuel efficient vehicles such as hybrid gas electric vehicles are another way forward. These vehicles can reduce gasoline consumption by about 50 percent during city driving. Policies that reduce unnecessary driving or traffic demand management can also reduce air pollution in urban areas.

- Power plants and industrial plants that burn fossil fuels use a variety of filtering methods to reduce particles and scrubbing methods to reduce gases.

- Managing air pollution interventions include monitoring air quality which may focus on exceedances of air quality guide lines in specific hotspots or on attempts to establish a specific populations average exposure to pollution. Some of the abatement measures that have implemented include introducing unleaded gasoline, tightening standards, introducing low smoke lubricants for two stroke engine vehicles, implementing inspections of vehicle exhaust emission to address gross polluters and reduce garbage burning.

- Educating children and people about the air pollution, its causes, health hazards, and interventions to manage this and awaring about all the consequences happening now and later.