A river are meant to be holy to cleanse however what was once a place of peace is now covered in toxic foam brought about by the estimated one and a half 1000000000 liters of untreated sewage that enter the river every day but it was the skies above new delhi that had many stopped in their tracks this weekend as a Public Health emergency was declared when the air quality index reached 999 in most areas the reason it was 999 is that because that it thats as high as the meters are able to record its estimated that the air in new delhi is 7 times as bad as the air in beijing china and 20 times what the World Health Organization deemed safe this means thousands of schools shut down Flights Canceled and cars banned from the roads on certain days to mitigate the already growing danger so what happened in india while an annual tradition of burning off with those in india called crops. All combined with the excessive use of fireworks during religious ceremonies in recent weeks and you have jus