Last Updated: December 16, 2023, 21:20 IST
Lahore was among the many worst polluted cities on the earth for the final month or so with unhealthy air high quality. (Representative Image: Reuters)
Addressing a press convention right here, the Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi stated that the experiment was performed in 10 areas of Lahore and it was profitable
Lahore, one of many world’s most polluted cities, on Saturday obtained its first synthetic rain, following an experiment performed by Pakistan’s Punjab authorities with the assistance of the UAE to fight smog.
Addressing a press convention right here, the Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi stated that the experiment was performed in 10 areas of Lahore and it was profitable.
Around 10 per cent of areas in Lahore obtained rainfall in the present day due to cloud seeding experiments, he stated, including that a minimum of 48 flares had been deployed for cloud seeding.
“Light showers were witnessed in the 10 areas of 15 km radius. The results of the experiment are being further gauged,” he stated.
“Not a single penny was spent for the artificial rain. To combat smog, the government is ready to take any measure,” the chief minister stated.
He additionally thanked the UAE authorities’s assist in initiating the synthetic rain, also referred to as cloud seeding, to wash away pollution within the air within the provincial capital.
Last month, native media reported that the Punjab province is planning to perform a man-made rain experiment with China’s assist in Lahore, a challenge estimated to value Rs 350 million within the cash-strapped nation.
Artificial rain is a climate modification approach that goals to stimulate precipitation. This is completed by introducing completely different substances into clouds that additional promote the formation of raindrops.
Lahore was among the many worst polluted cities on the earth for the final month or so with unhealthy air high quality. The second-largest metropolis in Pakistan continues to endure from a smog disaster that has affected the well being and livelihood of tens of millions of individuals.
The smog disaster in Lahore and Punjab province shouldn’t be a brand new phenomenon. It happens yearly in October, November and December when the climate circumstances lure the pollution within the decrease environment.
According to a worldwide environmental assume tank, IQAir, Pakistan is the third-most polluted nation on the earth, and Lahore is probably the most polluted metropolis.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
