[Air Pollution]by Thawdar Aung | 11-04-2019 01:57 |
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 In recent years, Myanmar has been developed rapidly and there are both advantages and disadvantages in many areas. One clear example is 670,000 cars had been imported into the country since 2011 and consequently thousands of hundreds of imported cars are in the country. People come to use private cars more than in the past and we have to face heavy traffic in rush hours which is pretty bothering. At that kind of hours, the emission of carbon dioxide from vehicles are too much. There are no specific data about carbon emission in Mandalay. In addition, middle class people use motorbike mostly for their daily works. Enormous amount of cars and motorbikes are the main source of CO2 emission.On the one hand, using public transportation will be one way to solve this problem. However, public transportation(tram, bus) is not that common in Mandalay,Myanmar. In Mandalay region, current AQI(air quality index) is 151 which is at unhealthy stage and sometimes, the highest is 189. In rainy season, the government and local people always make an event of growing various kinds of plants in many parts of the country which is a good sign of maintaining good weather and environment. According to WHO data, 22,000 deaths per year in Myanmar is due to the diseases caused by air pollution. A spokesperson of the WHO Myanmar office said " inefficient modes of transport, inefficient combustion of household fuels for cooking, lighting and heating, coal-fired power plants, industrial agriculture and waste burning " are the main reasons of outdoor air pollution in Myanmar. We should use more bikes and public transportation (Mandalay was once famous for using bikes among other cities in the past) to reduce toxic gases in the air. Furthermore, advance technologies in manufacturing processes are indeed necessary to apply for the developing country like Myanmar. |
