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AIR POLLUTION REPORT, TURKEY |
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by Umut Karadeniz | 21-03-2019 04:20 0 |
Environmental Engineers Chamber has announced that the air polution in Turkey become air pollution crisis. Only 6 provinces out of the 81 provinces were clean. Ankara, S©¥hhiye was the place where the most pollution was experienced, including Hacettepe, İbn-i Sina, Yüksek İhtisas, Numune hospitals and the Ministry of Health. Esenyurt and Şirinevler in Istanbul; Gaziemir and Bayrakl©¥ poison inhaled in Izmir. The 6 cities that came clean were Artvin, Bitlis, Eskişehir, Yozgat, K©¥rşehir and K©¥r©¥kkale. Baran Bozoğlu, President of the Chamber of Environment and Engineers, announced the 2017 Air Pollution Report. Bozoğlu said, in terms of particulate matter and sulfur dioxide, only six of our cities are air conditioned. The most polluted provinces are Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Amasya and Manisa. The air pollution problem in Turkey has turned in to crisis. Governorships and municipalities should take urgent measures. LIFE THREATS Bozoğlu mentioned that Turkey's air drew attention is increasingly threatened by contamination life. He added that dirty air respiratory infection, cancer, premature infant deaths, disabled births and mass deaths reminded that caused. ACCORDING TO WHO PARAMETERS World Health Organization (WHO) is used to measure air pollution according to the PM10 parameter is regular and more than 35 days PM10 WHO exceed the limit value of the provinces considered dirty: Istanbul, Ankara, Adana, Amasya, Manisa, Bursa, Denizli, Nigde , Tekirdag, Hatay, Yalova, Sivas, Kahramanmaras, Kutayha, Sakarya, Kirklareli, Icel and Samsun. THE HIGHEST HANDLING REGION Baran Bozoglu listed the most polluted places in three major cities and explained the reasons for this: S©¥hhiye, the hospital's most polluted place in Ankara. Citizens are actually being poisoned where they go to get health care, to find healing. Air pollution in Ankara is caused by traffic and heating. The use of poor quality coal has a great effect on this. Kayaş also has pollution caused by high-tonnage vehicles. In Kecioren, pollution is increasing day by day. NO CLEAN LOCATION IN CAPITAL CITY The capital's unclean zone is not available. We see that the main source of this is the transportation policy of Ankara. The other problem is the use of poor quality coal in the capital. THE CLEANEST DISTRICT IN ISTANBUL In Istanbul, we see that the limit values are intensively exceeded in all stations. Istanbul, the district with the highest population in Esenyurt, where the highest air pollution. 248 days of the year, citizens here breathe dirty air. Again, Şirinevler, Aksaray, Başakşehir and Göztepe air comes at the top of the dirtiest places. The cleanest district of Istanbul is Şile. URBAN TRANSFORMATION CAN CAUSE CANCER Istanbul's main source of pollution is urban transformation. The amount of dust from construction is increasing. Urban transformation is a process that needs to be planned very well for the solution of environmental problems. Planning of cities, opening of air corridors, is an important process for making green buildings with low energy consumption and low pollution. However, we are about to miss this opportunity. Municipalities need to use wetting work and barriers where necessary to prevent dusting. Otherwise, there is a danger of cancer in the regions of urban transformation. |
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Hello Umut
Thank you for sharing this urgent and important issue! Air pollution has the most direct impact on people??s lives as it can cause a lot of fatal diseases. Despite of the importance of clean air, most urban cities are suffering from poor air quality and governments don??t pay much attention to solve it. Thank you again for addressing this important issue and it would be wonderful if you can come up with any possible solution : )
Wonhee Mentor
Posted 27-03-2019 16:42
Hi Umut,
This is a very detailed report about Turkey's air pollution problem, and as you pointed out air pollution can induce many other problems such as cancer to us. We, as a whole, should really care about the environment, otherwise we will suffer a lot at the end.
Thank you, Umut!
Louis Mentor
Posted 27-03-2019 00:10
Hello Unmut
Hope you are doing fine. With the increasing in urbanization, mining and industrialization, It is clear that air pollution problem is likely to increase if we don't take correct step now. Thanks for your report on the air pollution in Turkey. I have been witnessing great effect of air pollution in capital of our country and news in Delhi.
Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.
Yours,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 25-03-2019 13:43
Hello Umut
Air pollution is one of the biggest threat.
Thank you so for this report.
Green cheers from Nepal.
Posted 24-03-2019 11:07
Hi Umut,
I trust you are well. It is clear that with the rate at which we are moving from the conventional use of coal and other finite energy resources to renewable resource, we are not only eating away the lives of those yet to be born, but we are endangering our own.
I am deeply disturbed in knowing that the S??hhiye Hospital is doing the complete opposite of what the general mandate of a hospital is supposed to do. I think that it is also not their fault and that the predicament is due to the long standing CO2 emissions in the city.
I hope practical mitigation plans are already in order to help the health sector and the dire air pollution problem in Turkey as a whole.
Thank you for your report Umet!
Sincerely,
Rosa
Posted 22-03-2019 18:44