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Navi Mumbai: Kharghar-Taloja-Panvel residents breathe polluted air for 17 hours daily, reveals study
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If youâre a resident from the Kharghar-Panvel-Taloja belt, you are inhaling polluted air for almost 17 hours every day. A month-long air quality monitoring carried out by an environment NGO Waatavaran Foundation, suggests that your morning walks could end up doing more damage to your health than good.
The study revealed high levels of Particulate Matter pollutant- (PM 2.5) in the air of these areas early in the morning between 6 am to 8 am. Meanwhile, the air quality data collected across this belt also indicated that Panvel witnessed â
A view of the city.
A month-long study conducted by an NGO has found that the residents living in the Kharghar-Panvel-Taloja belt are breathing
polluted air.
In fact, the study suggests that morning walks could end up doing more damage to people s health than good.
A month-long
air quality monitoring was carried by the
Waatavaran Foundation between November 13 to December 13, 2020, by installing five low-cost real-time air quality monitors.
One monitor was installed at
MIDC area of
Panvel, sector 36, and sector 7 in
Kharghar and Navade in Taloja.
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