Indoor Air Pollution Threatens 1 Billion People.The World Health Organization (WHO) on 14 September September: see month. revealed that as many as 1 billion people around the world are regularly exposed to indoor air pollution. WHO warned that air pollution was a major environmental health problem affecting both developed and developing countries. In India, where 80 per cent of households use solid fuel--wood, coal, charcoal charcoal, substance obtained by partial burning or carbonization (destructive distillation) of organic material. It is largely pure carbon. The entry of air during the carbonization process is controlled so that the organic material does not turn to ash, as in a , dung DUNG. Manure. Sometimes it is real estate, and at other times personal property. When collected in a heap, it is personal estate; when spread out on the land, it becomes incorporated in it, and it is then real estate. Vide Manure. and crop residues--it is estimated that half a million children die annually from indoor air pollution, especially from acute respiratory infections Noun 1. respiratory infection - any infection of the respiratory tract respiratory tract infection infection - the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms . |
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