Written By: Tavishi Dogra | Updated : November 8, 2024 6:31 PM IST
How Do Changes In Air Quality Affect The Human Health
As we approach the season when air quality in Delhi and nearby areas deteriorates to hazardous levels, it's crucial to understand the situation's urgency. The impact of this poor air quality is not limited to specific groups but affects everyone. Finding and implementing solutions is not just a task but a collective responsibility, a shared mission. We all have a role in improving the AQI levels from very poor to poor and eventually to good, ensuring a healthier environment for all.
Even as it relieves people from incessant eye burning and laboured breathing, from an environmental perspective, lower AQI promotes biodiversity for plants and animals because they get a healthy environment in which to grow.
So, to keep the air quality under control, preventive measures must be undertaken to regulate industrial emissions, encourage clean energy resources like solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, improve public transport, encourage plantation, and promote the three R policies: reduce, reuse, and recycle. Adequate waste segregation must also be implemented, and alternative garbage removal techniques, such as recycling or composting, must be used to reduce the open burning of waste.
If the AQI is categorized as 'poor' or 'very poor,' it may be advisable to limit outdoor activities, especially for vulnerable groups such as the aged, people with pre-existing health disorders, and kids. Using air purifiers, wearing masks, and staying indoors can also help mitigate the effects of poor air quality.
