
As millions of people in Asia suffocate under polluted skies, authorities have turned to water --
Disperse drones and outdoor air purifiers to improve air quality while companies try to make money by selling everything from canned air to the lungs --purifying teas.
According to the World Health Organization, 92% of the population in the Asia-Pacific region is exposed to air pollution levels, which poses a significant risk to their health.
Here are some of the ways people living under smog are trying to limit minimizing the effects of smog.
With public anger rising over toxic air, the authorities turned to spray water, which is considered to be insisting on contaminants and bringing them to the ground, but, tools like water cannons are criticized for having little effect, it's a band"
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The most polluted big cities in the world
In 2017, the helicopter was tried to sprinkle water over the city, but the visibility was low due to smog, and the helicopter could not fly.
In Bangkok, the government has tried a series of measures to deal with the smog that shrouded the city for weeks in January, including spraying overpasses with water, broadcasting clouds, and even deploying a fleet of water.
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Sowing is stimulated by the use of rockets, cannons, or aircraft to inject chemicals into the clouds, but the technology is not always successful.
South Korea tried to create artificial rain to solve the problem of air pollution in January, but failed. Earlier, a plane planted clouds with silver iodine produced only a few minutes of foggy rain.
Xi'an, a northern Chinese city, is experimenting with a giant air purifier the size of an industrial chimney that can reduce pm2. 5.
According to the researchers, the concentration reached 15% within 10 square kilometers.
Hong Kong opened a family this year.
The 7 km tunnel is equipped with the air purification system touted as the largest in the world. 5.
4 million of car exhaust per hour.
The government says it will be able to use large fans to remove at least 80% of harmful particles and carbon dioxide, which suck the exhaust gas into air purification plants in three ventilated buildings along the tunnel.
According to the Hindustan Times, New Delhi last year announced a plan to install large air purifiers at traffic intersections and air filters on the roof of the bus to catch pollutants as they move.
At a time when air pollution is particularly severe in winter, residents of China's smog cities have fled to cleaner places, such as resorts in southern China, to take a temporary break and return after cleaning up.
China's largest online travel agency, Ctrip, estimates that more than a million residents in smog cities such as Beijing and Shanghai leave China every 2016 to escape the smog.
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Smog refugees include places like Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Some even travel to Antarctica on these lungs.
Ctrip said, "clean up travel ".
Although experts say residents in smog cities are unlikely to see the health impact of breathing bottled air, this does not prevent entrepreneurs from selling jars from New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland to them.
For about $22, consumers can order a can of 8 liters of Banff Air from Canada's famous tourist attractions, or pay $125 to buy a can of air from British countryside.
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Vendors promote smoking tea as a way to clean the lungs, while Mongolian residents drink "oxygen cocktails "--
Use a machine or air tank to spray oxygen into a juice glass.
The advertisement boasted that "only one oxygen cocktail is equivalent to three oxygen cocktails ". hour-
Although there is no scientific evidence that they can protect people from pollution, they walk in the dense forest.