AIR POLLUTION REPORT, TURKEYby Umut Karadeniz | 21-03-2019 04:20 |
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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. |