Pakistan: Lahore attempts to tackle smog with mist machines

DW (English)

The smog season has begun in Pakistan's second-largest city. Residents are falling ill and anti-smog machines spray mist, while officials defend their efforts. But experts say emissions are driving an ongoing crisis.

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00:18people say that this photo timing is affected, so I want to tell you this too, that which area is more than one of the PM 10 ratio,

00:26There is no idea that we are going to go to the park and we are going to go back to the park.

00:29We define the route of the area within that area,

00:33that it is from 6 o'clock, until 4 o'clock in the morning.

00:37This is the industrial emissions, such as the brink links, the steel mills, which are high-intensive carbon industries.

01:00This also costs a lot of industry emissions, such as coal and fossil fuel burnings are very popular in our boilers.

01:10We need to control this.

01:12Then, one of the important things is the construction and road dust.

01:16This construction should be banned in 4 months.

01:20We need to control dust from roads and construction sites, which is specially caused PM10 and PM2.5.

01:33The PM2.5 is very small.

01:36The size of the mist, the PM10 is tackled.

01:41The PM2.5 is not responsible for that work.

01:42The PM2.5 is not the case.

01:44But the overall radius, the overall radius is made, by the sky is clear.

01:49The PM2.5 is not the case.

01:54The PM2.5 is not the case.

01:59The PM2.5 is not the case.

02:01I am so excited about this.

02:04I am so excited about this.

02:07I have a smoke.

02:09I am so excited to see how it's going.

02:12I am so excited to see how it's going.

02:15Now, when the weather starts to start,

02:18we have to go to hospital and go to clinic.

02:22We can't do anything to do with our children.

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