Three women are standing in water to his ankles under the religious Chatth Puja festival at the Yamuna river Sunday.
A photographer captures the three women, while they pray to the sun god in their hindu faith. But the water can only barely glimpse. Over the water is a thick layer of what looks like snow.
It’s not, though. Far from it in fact. There is talk about the stinking white foam, which is a by-product of the strong polluted river that runs through the capital of India, New Delhi.
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The last few days, the pollution in New Delhi has reached new heights. Every year, it becomes megapolis plagued by dense air pollution, but this year has smoggen really had consequences for city residents.
Schools are closed, traffic paralyzed, construction sites in the quarantine, and millions of automobiles are denied access on the roads.
Sunday reached the level of air pollution so high peaks, that the prime minister call it ‘the most polluted day ever’.
– There are polluted smoke everywhere. No people – young people, children and old people – can breathe, says New Delhi’s prime minister, Varun Jhaveri, in a Twitter video, according to German Bild.
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On several images, it is almost impossible to see the thousands of hindus, who on Sunday gathered on the banks of the Yamuna river. Photo: Adnan Abidi/Ritzau Scanpix
the Eyes stings
According to the prime minister have more of the small 20 million population, have complained that their eyes stings, and chest hurt, when they are gasping for breath.
the Air was Sunday, so the close of the contamination, that the whole town was covered in a thick blanket of smog. Therefore, the participants could at Chatth Puja festival is not see the sun, as they were present for worship.
Several local compare the current situation with living in a gas chamber, writes british the BBC.
the Authorities in India have initiated a number of emergency solutions, which minimise the fatal consequences of the widespread pollution. It writes the news agency Reuters.
You have among other things, purchased large quantities of air purifiers, as, for example, has been set up by India’s biggest tourist attraction, the Taj Mahal, 250 kilometers south of New Delhi.
Every year in november to experience India extensive problems with air pollution because of industridampe, vehicles and farmers who set fire to their fields to make room for new crops.
Delhi has turned into a gas chamber due to smoke from crop burning in neighbouring states
It is very imp that we protect ourselves from this toxic air. Through pvt & govt schools, we have started distributing 50 lakh masks today
I urge all Delhiites to use them whenever needed pic.twitter.com/MYwRz9euaq
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) November 1, 2019
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