A year has gone by and we are upon another World Environment Day a day universally dedicated to spreading awareness about the increasingly urgent need to protect the world around us. The day is significant but environment protection has to be an unending 24/7 commitment not just a one-day event. One needs to understand that our health is totally dependent on the air we breathe the food we consume the water we drink and in short the environment we live in. About 40 per cent of all communicable diseases and a good number of non-communicable diseases like asthma and other