POLLUTION IN HYDERABAD STATS

POLLUTION IN HYDERABAD

VEHICLE STATS

Currently, there are 

3 lakh four-wheelers and 

12.5 lakh two-wheelers plying on the city roads.

 In 1970, there were just 80,000 vehicles in Hyderabad, which increased to 10 lakh in 2001 and 

the latest figures for 2007 show that there are a whopping 18.5 lakh vehicles in the city. 

Recently, more than 10,000 cabs were added to the city roads & 1.2lakh AUTOS

POLLUTION OF WATER

• Cruise ships are a major cause of pollutants. They release a million gallons of polluted water in the ocean and seas. Apart from this, they produce over 200,000 gallons of sewage, which is mostly dumped in the ocean. Cruise ships are also responsible for causing at least 35,000 gallons of water contamination due to the presence of oils, diesel fuel, and other pollutants.
  
  
• Plastic litter is also a major water pollutant, causing enormous destruction to marine life. It is believed that annually plastic litter is responsible for the deaths of more than 100,000 marine mammals, 1 million sea birds and countless fishes.
  
  
• As a result of pollution, almost 50% of the groundwater throughout the world is unsuitable for drinking.
  
  
• Water pollution is the main cause of several diseases like cholera, typhoid, and dysentery. Such diseases affect over 250 million people out of which 8 million people do not survive
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • The water resources in Asia are the most polluted amongst the rest with human waste, thus providing an ideal environment for the growth and development of dangerous bacteria and viruses that can cause a host of diseases.
    
    
  • Bangladesh has the most polluted groundwater in the world. The contaminant there is arsenic, which occurs naturally in the sediments. Around 85% of the total area of the country has contaminated groundwater, with at least 1.2 million Bangladeshis exposed to arsenic poisoning and with millions more at risk.

effects:
getting more cases of respiratory disorders these days, especially Allergic Rhinitis, and several cases of asthma. On an average one in eight to 10 suffer from such problems


About 40 per cent of the rhinitis cases that come to us, later become cases of asthma

Most of the particulate matter is from vehicular pollution, which is about 70-80 per cent of the particulate matter we see, while dust – from construction activities in and around the city contributes the rest.



 Though the city’s air pollution shows arrested trend this Southern city is poised for vehicle explosion. Share of car trips is increasing steadily, taking away space from walkers and public transport users. Congestion has slowed down peak hour traffic. The city needs rapid mobility transition.








EMISSION LEVELS


The total suspended particulate matter (TSPM) standard value is  200 ug/m3.

On June 2, as against the standard TSPM of 200 ug/m3,

Abids recorded 242, Punjagutta 321 and Paradise 347.


(VERY HIGH)

Pollution Facts

• Americans use approximately 2.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year. Research shows that target pests will eventually develop resistance to these pesticides anyway.
• Seventy-three different kinds of pesticides have been found in groundwater, which is potential drinking water.
• More than 100 active pesticide ingredients are suspected of causing cancer, birth defects, and gene mutation.
• A growing list of pesticides have the potential to disrupt the immune and endocrine systems and of having long term impacts on the offspring of exposed humans and animals.
• The cost of one nuclear weapons test alone could finance the installation of eighty thousand hand pumps, giving third world villages access to clean water.
• Estimated costs of cleaning up the 24,000 contaminated federal nuclear facilities range from $100 billion to $400 billion. (The Environmental Protection Agency)
• Each year U.S. factories spew 3 million tons of toxic chemicals into the air, land, and water. That compounds the over one-half billion tons of solid hazardous wastes - we're not talking about your garbage here - that get dumped across the nation for our generation to one day clean up. (The Gale Environmental Scorecard)
• In 1987, the U.S. released 1.2 million tons of toxic chemicals into our atmosphere, 670,000 tons into our soil, and 250,000 tons into our water. (International Wildlife magazine)
• PCB's haven't been used in the U.S. for more than two decades. But dangerous levels of PCB's remain in the natural environment and pose a threat to human health. --ENN for 5/27/98
• "Everyone has some amount of dioxin in his or her body, and the average level is already high enough to endanger health." --Lois Gibbs
• Nitrogen is essential to crops but too much will leak into groundwater and rivers causing nutrient pollution in rivers and oceans and severe human health problems from nitrate pollution.
• In the US, 41% of all insecticides are used on corn. Eighty per cent of these are used to treat a pest that could be controlled simply by rotating the corn for one year with any other crop.
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Pollution is a Global Killer

Pollution likely affects over a billion people around the world, with millions poisoned and killed each year.  The World Heath Organization estimates that 25 percent of all deaths in the developing world are directly attributable to environmental factor.¹ Some researchers estimate that exposure to pollution causes 40 percent of deaths annually.²

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