ADHM to take innovative measures to combat Delhi pollution
Delhi’s menacing air pollution has reached an all-time high at the moment, and that has forced the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon organizers to resort to different measures to reduce the effect on runners. They have even taken help from companies that can reduce PM drastically over three kilometres.
Organizing sporting events in the capital city has slowly become a huge task for the sports organizers in the city. And the latest one to attempt to pull off the difficult would be the organisers of Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM).
However, they have decided to be proactive in their approach and come up with multiple innovative measures in order to combat the air pollution in the city, which would be including adopting ecologically safe systems like ultra high-frequency radio pulses amongst others.
"We have successfully deployed measures to curb air pollution. We will spray water across the route with water jets. The water that we are going to spray is mixed with a certain kind of chemical effluents which will help further precipitation of suspended particulate matter,” informed Vivek Singh of Procam International which organises the event, reported TOI.
"As ascertained by multiple experts, the eco-friendly agent binds with the dust and reduces the volume of suspended particulate matter and when the water which has been sprayed on the roads starts vaporizing, it creates a safe and clean channel for runners to run. Secondly, the entire course will be washed with an ecologically safe reagent, mixed with effluent treated water to avoid the rise of dust. Thirdly, any kind of debris, sand or pile of mud is being cleared off the route.
"And finally, we have deployed a Bangalore-based company who have technology that significantly reduces PM 2.5 and PM 10 suspended particulate matter from the air and creates an ambient zone – at least about 3 kilometres in radius," Singh added.