{"id":4889,"date":"2023-07-02T11:13:15","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T11:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanacres.in\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2023-07-02T11:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T11:13:15","slug":"hyderabad-ranks-worst-in-air-pollution-in-south-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/?p=4889","title":{"rendered":"Hyderabad Ranks Worst in Air Pollution in South India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With PM 2.5 levels at an alarming 8.2 times more than the safe levels as<br \/>\nprescribed by the World Health Organisation, Hyderabad is the most air<br \/>\npolluted city among other cities in south India.<\/p>\n<p>Greenpeace India, which analysed the PM 2.5 levels in the city for a period of<br \/>\n365 days, said in a report that the high air pollution levels can have a negative<br \/>\nlong-term health impact on citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The alarming levels of PM 2.5 concentrations are found to be recorded on 300<br \/>\ndays, which stood at 81.97 percent in Hyderabad on all the days. When it comes to average PM10 pollutant levels, Hyderabad recorded 57.84 ug\/m3. This<br \/>\namounts to being 3.9 times the safe levels (15 ug\/m3). The report retrieved<br \/>\nrecords of PM10 levels in the city on 237 days and found that the average is 3.9<br \/>\ntimes more than safe levels (15 ug\/m3).<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollutant levels, the average levels<br \/>\nover the course of 337 days stood at 17.05 ug.m3. This amounts to 1.7 times the<br \/>\nsafe levels (10 ug\/m3) as per WHO guidelines. Hyderabad recorded hazardous<br \/>\nlevels of No2 pollution on 53 days on record which accounted for 15.73<br \/>\npercent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With PM 2.5 levels at an alarming 8.2 times more than the safe levels as prescribed by the World Health Organisation, Hyderabad is the most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12367,407],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anti-pollution","category-hyderabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livzzy.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}