{"id":59004,"date":"2019-12-24T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T11:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=59004"},"modified":"2020-01-28T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T05:16:08","slug":"pollution-dry-weather-takes-toll-islamabads-air-quality-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pollution-dry-weather-takes-toll-islamabads-air-quality-levels.html","title":{"rendered":"Pollution, dry weather takes its toll on Islamabad&#8217;s air quality levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The ongoing dry weather spell in the capital city, with its increasing humidity and traffic emission levels, is the reason behind the city\u2019s unhealthy air quality index since November \u2013 and hazardous pollutants ratio is recorded to be beyond the permissible rates, according to news sources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/uspms-discusses-air-pollution-smog-situation-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USPMS discusses air pollution, smog situation in Punjab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The air quality details released by the Pakistan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/economic-cost-environmental-degradation-soars-climate-change-ministry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Environment Protection Agency (EPA)<\/a> has shown a worrisome high value of particulate matter of 2.5 microns (PM 2.5). According to reports, the particulate matter in air has exceeded both the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS)\u2019s prescribed acceptable values. The NEQS has a limit of 35 micrograms\/ meter cube (mg\/m\u00b3) and WHO\u2019s guideline stipulates that PM 2. 5 not exceed 10 \u03bcg\/ m\u00b3 annual mean, or 25 \u03bcg\/ m\u00b3 24-hour mean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/balochistan-govt-install-air-quality-monitors-border-areas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Balochistan govt to install air quality monitors at border areas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PM 2.5 has increased the permissible ratio of 35 mg\/m\u00b3 and was recorded highest ever in the capital (63.02 mg\/m\u00b3). A WHO report in this regard, claims that the PM 2.5 is a hazardous pollutant that may penetrate in human blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The ongoing dry weather spell in the capital city, with its increasing humidity and traffic emission levels, is the reason behind the city\u2019s unhealthy air quality index since November \u2013 and hazardous pollutants ratio is recorded to be beyond the permissible rates, according to news sources. Read:\u00a0USPMS discusses air pollution, smog situation in Punjab The air quality details released by the Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has shown a worrisome high value of particulate matter of 2.5 microns (PM 2.5). According to reports, the particulate matter in air has exceeded both the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS)\u2019s prescribed acceptable values. The NEQS has a limit of 35 micrograms\/ meter cube (mg\/m\u00b3) and WHO\u2019s guideline stipulates that PM 2. 5 not exceed 10 \u03bcg\/ m\u00b3 annual mean, or 25 \u03bcg\/ m\u00b3 24-hour mean. Read:\u00a0Balochistan govt to install air quality monitors at border areas The PM 2.5 has increased the permissible ratio of 35 mg\/m\u00b3 and was recorded highest ever in the capital (63.02 mg\/m\u00b3). A WHO report in this regard, claims that the PM 2.5 is a hazardous pollutant that may penetrate in human blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":42615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[14607,14608],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-details-on-pollution","9":"tag-dry-weather-takes-its-toll-on-islamabads-air-quality-levels","10":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pollution, dry weather takes its toll on Islamabad&#039;s air quality levels - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The ongoing dry weather spell in the capital city, with its increasing humidity and traffic emission levels, is the reason behind the city\u2019s\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pollution-dry-weather-takes-toll-islamabads-air-quality-levels.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pollution, dry weather takes its toll on Islamabad&#039;s air quality levels - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The ongoing dry weather spell in the capital city, with its increasing humidity and traffic emission levels, is the reason behind the city\u2019s\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pollution-dry-weather-takes-toll-islamabads-air-quality-levels.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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