Poor air quality and tainted water: 20 lakh deaths annually...
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Water to drink and air to breathe are necessities for all living things. However, access to clean drinking water and air in india has grown increasingly difficult in recent times. Particularly in large cities with higher population densities. The right to breathe clean air and drink clean water is denied to millions of individuals in this place. Countless individuals experience the sleep of death annually. In india, 1.6 million (16 lakh) deaths occur annually owing to unhealthy air. Over 99 per cent of indians are compelled to breathe contaminated air, with PM2.5 levels five times higher than recommended by the World health Organization.
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Bad air and water combined to claim 23 lakh lives.
A Lancet analysis claims that over 2.3 million (23 lakh) indians died before their time in 2019 as a result of contaminated air and water. Of these, drinking contaminated water resulted in five lakh deaths, whereas poor air quality alone caused sixteen lakh deaths.
India ranks first in the world for pollution-related mortality.
Globally speaking, the dearth of clean water and air is attributed to the mortality of over 80 lakh individuals in 2019. According to data from the 2019 Injuries and Risk Factors Study and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD), pollution kills 8 million people annually.
When it comes to pollution, india has the worst condition.
According to research, 90 percent of pollution-related deaths happened in low- and middle-income nations, with china coming in second with 21 lakh deaths and india leading the way with 23 lakh deaths. The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has been expressly mentioned in the Lancet study. It is said that in 2016, an attempt was made to reduce air pollution by giving low-income rural women access to gas hookups through this program. But nothing changes—the situation is still the same. The lack of a national mechanism to reduce pollution is the cause of this.
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