KUWAIT: The World Health Organization (WHO), in a new report, has classified Kuwait as being one of the ten most polluted countries in the world. Announcing the details of the new WHO report yesterday, Kuwait's Green Line Environmental Group (GLEG) asserted that this categorically disproves the Environmental Public Authority's claims that the country is doing well environmentally.
The WHO report revealed that Kuwait has the tenth highest air pollution levels worldwide, coming ahead of several nations that lack its technical and financial means, said the environmental group's statement. The GLEG stressed that Kuwait's critical environmental status could see it losing any claim to credibility in environmental protection internationally as it already has locally.
The Kuwaiti authorities must take urgent measures to protect society from the dangerous effects of air pollution, the statement warned, adding that, as the WHO has pointed out, fine particles of the polluting chemicals found in Kuwait, which are invisible to the naked eye, can be breathed in or absorbed by the skin and cause heart disease and lung cancer, as well as other diseases. The group said that for its latest report, the WHO had monitored air quality in cities around the world for seven years between 2003 and 2010.
The GLEG also slammed the EPA over its failure to provide any comprehensive records mapping air pollution levels in the Gulf state, despite its officials' claims to have all the data and figures on these. The environmental group suggested that this raises severe doubts about the EPA officials' claims, especially since none of the data they claim to have in their possession has been published and nobody outside the EPA has been given any access to these records.
LWDLIK- Is not a happy bunny :O(
The WHO report revealed that Kuwait has the tenth highest air pollution levels worldwide, coming ahead of several nations that lack its technical and financial means, said the environmental group's statement. The GLEG stressed that Kuwait's critical environmental status could see it losing any claim to credibility in environmental protection internationally as it already has locally.
The Kuwaiti authorities must take urgent measures to protect society from the dangerous effects of air pollution, the statement warned, adding that, as the WHO has pointed out, fine particles of the polluting chemicals found in Kuwait, which are invisible to the naked eye, can be breathed in or absorbed by the skin and cause heart disease and lung cancer, as well as other diseases. The group said that for its latest report, the WHO had monitored air quality in cities around the world for seven years between 2003 and 2010.
The GLEG also slammed the EPA over its failure to provide any comprehensive records mapping air pollution levels in the Gulf state, despite its officials' claims to have all the data and figures on these. The environmental group suggested that this raises severe doubts about the EPA officials' claims, especially since none of the data they claim to have in their possession has been published and nobody outside the EPA has been given any access to these records.
LWDLIK- Is not a happy bunny :O(
I expect one day we'll all glow in the dark..
ReplyDeleteLOL expataussiegal you could be right there. Would be a great energy saving device.
ReplyDelete