Air Pollution
There is no pollution control authority in my country. However no one needs an official pollution monitoring system to realize that the air we breathe in the city of Kinshasa is very polluted. It is useless to search for official pollution information on Kinshasa. Even in the 2014 WHO report on air pollution, data on Africa in general and on Congo in particular are not available. When looking on the WHO website, we can find statistics on regions like America, Pacific, Asia and Europe, but nothing on Africa that is not Ebola, HIV, onchocerciasis, hepatitis, malaria, and other calamities.
Still it would be interesting to measure the level of air pollution in my country and compare it to air pollution in other places in the world. I guess that there will be not much difference between industrialized countries and some regions of my country, like Kinshasa. Because here there is no control over pollutants production, while in industrialized countries the issue is addressed and people understand that they cannot use or burn pollutants as they please. While in industrialized western countries improvement has been recorded after some environmental friendly measures have been taken, the situation is getting worse in my …show more content…
Many people use tires to start fires when it comes to cooking, or during bereavement wakes to heat themselves because the nights may be very cold, especially in dry season. Another particulate matter source is plastic bags that are dumped everywhere. After a while they are reduced in tiny particles that are easily carried away by the wind. Usually, storms are announced by violent winds that lift up all the light waste from the ground to the air. When this occurs, there is a storm of dust made of sand, plastic bags particles, and other pollutants that literally hit people who vainly try not to
There is no pollution control authority in my country. However no one needs an official pollution monitoring system to realize that the air we breathe in the city of Kinshasa is very polluted. It is useless to search for official pollution information on Kinshasa. Even in the 2014 WHO report on air pollution, data on Africa in general and on Congo in particular are not available. When looking on the WHO website, we can find statistics on regions like America, Pacific, Asia and Europe, but nothing on Africa that is not Ebola, HIV, onchocerciasis, hepatitis, malaria, and other calamities.
Still it would be interesting to measure the level of air pollution in my country and compare it to air pollution in other places in the world. I guess that there will be not much difference between industrialized countries and some regions of my country, like Kinshasa. Because here there is no control over pollutants production, while in industrialized countries the issue is addressed and people understand that they cannot use or burn pollutants as they please. While in industrialized western countries improvement has been recorded after some environmental friendly measures have been taken, the situation is getting worse in my …show more content…
Many people use tires to start fires when it comes to cooking, or during bereavement wakes to heat themselves because the nights may be very cold, especially in dry season. Another particulate matter source is plastic bags that are dumped everywhere. After a while they are reduced in tiny particles that are easily carried away by the wind. Usually, storms are announced by violent winds that lift up all the light waste from the ground to the air. When this occurs, there is a storm of dust made of sand, plastic bags particles, and other pollutants that literally hit people who vainly try not to