India: In Loni, the Most Polluted City in the World, Dust Is Everywhere
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Loni, India, faces extreme levels of pollution that put the health of thousands of people at risk and hinder their daily lives.
Every time you ride a motorcycle, Kanwar Singh is completely covered in dirt. "I have the impression of swallowing 50 grams of dust a day," says this salesman from Loni, in northern India, where it is impossible to escape pollution.
"It fits into my throat and my lungs," says this 55-year-old cigarette salesman, "in the evening, I have to drink hot water and make gargarisms to succeed in breathing." About 30 kilometres west of the Indian capital New Delhi, Loni inherited in 2025 the infamous first place of the list of the world's most polluted cities set up by IQAir, a Swiss air quality monitoring company. Its 700,000 inhabitants breathed an average concentration of 112.5 m…
Factory smoke, traffic leakage, and construction dust produce a toxic mixture for the 700,000 inhabitants
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