Pollution

The Centre has given its nod to the cutting-edge idea. But can cloud seeding really help tackle the Delhi 'Airpocalypse'?

To begin with, Jyoti points out that we need to acknowledge that poor air quality is a problem which impacts the poor far more than the rich and elite.

Kurin Systems has designed a 40-feet-tall purifier christened ‘City Cleaner’, which claims to provide clean air to 75,000 people living in the 3-km radius around it.

Even as Delhi heads for a ‘deadly cocktail’ of pollution in the coming weeks, on Thursday, Union Environment Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan, flagged off five buses fitted with air-filters, which trap the pollutants in the air, as a pilot project as a part of an aggressive ten-day aggressive ‘Clean Air’ Campaign to combat the city’s ever-increasing air pollution levels.

A shrewd administrator with a penchant for going after the corrupt, Bhure Lal served in the Indian Army for seven years and saw action during the 1965 Indo-Pak war!

Recent studies have proven that it can cause a whole new range of health issues we never imagined—Alzheimer’s disease, strokes, damage to intelligence, and so on.

Every year, just before Diwali, citizens come out in large numbers to urge the government to take action and find concrete solutions to this recurring problem. The season goes, and the din created returns to the back burner.

With cremations being an inherent part of many cultures, a team from IIT Delhi has now developed an eco-friendly technique that offers a solution to counter air and water pollution.

The problem of cleaning up the lakes to acquire drinking water, they discovered, did not just lie with tackling pollution but in the lack of awareness about the condition.

Prototypes of the device, named WAYU, have been installed at the ITO Junction in central Delhi and Mukarba Chowk in north Delhi.