Name: What makes Delhi's air so deadly
Uploaded: 2019-12-18T09:15:03.000Z
Duration: 5 min 41 s
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drivers couldn't see where they were going.

as drivers kept crashing into the pileup.

when Delhi experiences a huge spike in air pollution.

“...every two minutes one person dies due to air pollution in this country.”

" I have to go to the hospital or the doctor now."

When it hits, the nearly 30 million people

here are forced to live in a toxic cloud.

Scientists estimate that spending a day outside

in these conditions is like smoking 50 cigarettes.

“As a lung surgeon, when I open the chest

I rarely see a normal pink lung these days.”

On the ground, a layer of dust covers the entire city,

and, in the air, a thick layer of pollution hides landmarks

that are easy to see the rest of the year.

Delhi has always been a big, busy, polluted city.

But in the last decade something is making

Today it's the second-largest city in the world

As Delhi grows, there's also more construction,

And more industries, contaminating the environment.

All these things make  the average air quality in Delhi

But something else is happening right here,

to measure the levels that we achieve.”

The smog is so bad , you can see it from space.

They're a key region for the country's agriculture.

and that requires large amounts of water.

In the 2000s, rice farming here took off,

and farmers in the area started using so much water,

that the region's groundwater started running low.

So, to save water, authorities passed a new act in 2009.

when rains come to replenish the groundwater.

That pushes rice harvesting later into the year,

to get their fields ready for their next crop.

There are two reasons why smoke in this region

The Himalayan mountains act like a kind of barrier,

rushes down from the Himalayas towards Delhi,

arriving beneath a layer of warm lowland air

that creates a kind of dome over the city.

The warm air keeps pollution trapped on the ground

So when the stubble fire smoke arrives in Delhi,

forming a toxic smog that sits on top of the city.

the most hazardous air pollution of almost anywhere.

In November of 2019, India's Supreme Court

ruled that states in the North had to stop farmers

to stop crop burning in neighboring states.

city officials change the things they can control: