City Reporter
The air quality of the federal capital was recorded healthy on Tuesday as isolates witnessed first clearing in the sky after repeated days of polluted air due to increased ratio of pollutants since February amid persistent dry weather.
A Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) official told media that the average ratio of particulate matter of 2.5 microns also PM 2.5 was recorded below safer limits.
It was the most hazardous air pollutant causing serious respiratory chronic diseases and premature deaths.
PM2.5 has recorded 16.43 micrograms per cubic meter in Islamabad, which is much lower than the National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) of 35 micrograms and the World Health Organization (WHO) standard of 20 micrograms per cubic meter.
The air quality data revealed the presence of 19.43 micrograms of sulfur dioxide and 13.73 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide per cubic meter against the NEQS of 120 micrograms and 80 micrograms per cubic meter respectively.
