desperate for clean air, delhi residents experiment with solutions - home room air purifiers

NEW DELHI —
For some worried expats and Indians, the fight to prevent pollution from leaving their homes and lungs has begun before the media re-reported New Delhi as the world's most polluted city in the past few weeks.
A New York Times report by Gardner Harris noted that in the first three weeks of this year, the average daily peak reading of fine particulate matter obtained by New delhi Harris from a display was 473, it is more than twice the average of 227 people in Beijing.
The report also pointed out that many Indians seem to be less concerned about pollution than Beijing residents.
But some of the pioneers in Delhi are not simply waiting for a change in the wind, but are willing to spend a lot of money, or risk embarrassment, trying to breathe clean air and use air filters, indoor plants and imported masks.
The health risks associated with air pollution have forced chasers to change their lifestyles. The Chaser is a family of four in the United States. he came to Delhi from Ethiopia about a year and a half ago.
Public health professional Genevieve Chase says that as a parent, you often weigh the health concerns of outdoor sports and air.
We used to be an outdoor family.
We must save it for vacation now.
Chase has installed the top-of-the-
The air purifiers in their two rooms, each for about $1,400, can only be bought from a supplier in Mumbai called Samskara health, by the way, indicated by email, due to increased news coverage of air pollution, their sales have risen slightly over the past week, although almost exclusively among foreign customers.
The very bad air of Delhi thans s means that the filters in the machine have to be replaced at more than twice as fast as they did when they made the machine in Geneva, and she says the annual maintenance costs can easily exceed $1,000. Chase.
Still, she said that they would buy more if her family chose to stay in Delhi.
Outside, the chaser tries to protect himself by wearing a mask to cover his mouth. This practice is common in East Asia --
But it is difficult to find the mask in the store, wearing the mask will attract unnecessary attention.
Annabelle Chase, 11, said her mother had her wearing a mask specially brought from the United States, but when she arrived at school, her
Then they said she looked like an alien or like she was sick.
Ten minutes later, Annabel vowed never to wear a mask again, or at least before the unlikely event that all of her friends were wearing a mask.
BreatheEasy, a company that installs centralized air systems in homes and businesses, said Barun Aggarwal, director of the company, despite being stared at, also wore a mask when he went out.
People look at me and you can see what's wrong with them thinking about him?
Instead of asking questions about the air, he saidAggarwal.
As expected
Aggarwal suggested using air filters at home, but he also said that placing plants in the room that convert carbon dioxide into oxygen would yield significant gains in combination with air purifiers.
He said that the little arec tree carried out this conversion during the day, a plant called the mother --in-lawâx80x99s-
Tongue will do this at night.
There are most nurseries.
But the stopgap solution seems to offer as many headaches as a clean breath.
Masks are basically not available and are definitely not cool. Mr.
For their own safety, Aggarwal wanted to arrange masks for the police at delhi Kumar so they could be role models.
Chase wants to do the same with the athletes at her children's school.
Neither initiative has made much progress.
For most people, the use of air purifiers, the most frequent replacement of filters is required, the price is very expensive, in addition, when these filters are thrown away, the particles trapped inside will go straight back into the air even outside the home.
One of the most feasible options to protect the lung health of Delhi residents is to install the central ventilation and filtration system technology that already exists
Maija Asia, an independent indoor air quality consultant based in Bangalore, said in new homes and businesses.
These systems have increased air quality by 80%.
At the very least, she said, we should not build new buildings without them.
Architects should be educated on how to integrate these things.
But, if any, few people are pushing for the inclusion of this technology in current projects, in line with the general lack of attention to pollution.
Environmental Epidemiology and mother of two daughters, Preetha Rajaram, moved back to India from the United States three years ago and has since invested in air purifiers at home.
But to her surprise, it seems that her Indian colleagues are rarely disturbed by air.
"Of course, there are a lot of things here that bother you," she said . ".
Maybe if you're just here, then you don't necessarily know it's the way things should be. âx80x9dMs.
Rajaram said that she and her husband are increasingly convinced that the air in delhi Sharma will aggravate one daughter's asthma and lead to another tonitis and adenitis, meaning that she can only breathe from her mouth. Mr.
Aggarwal did his part and sounded the alarm of pollution hazards among Delhi residents, he often spoke at schools and conferences, but he felt the indifference he encountered
People must be shocked, but I often hear this "Oh God, should I shoot myself ? "?
That attitude is correct, he said.
Unless they or their children face serious breathing problems, I don't see Indians doing anything about it.
Not far from the terrace of the Delhi Golf Club, where Sir
Sitting there for an interview, Aggarwal lights up carcinogenic particles shrouded in bunkers and greens.
On the table next door, a man coughed and muttered in his mouth: "This smog makes me very uncomfortable . "
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