Hanoi: Photo exhibition on air pollution

Photo "Beautiful but not beautiful"

The highway was covered with dust, black smoke filled the air because of burning garbage, using a honeycomb coal stove, children went to school with a masked face . life scenes often associated with this dust and smoke in Hanoi posted on photos to always remind people: emissions can lead to infertility in men, diseases of the heart, kidneys and lung cancer .

At the awarding ceremony and exhibition of photo contest "Air cleaner, better life" has just taken place at the National Library (Hanoi), nearly 100 photos were selected from 511 photos of 118 works. The exhibition exhibited at the exhibition clearly showing the angles affecting the air environment: the high-speed highway was dusty, the smoke was thick with air because of burning garbage, because of the honeycomb coal stove, because the exhaust smoke from the vehicles traffic.

This is a contest organized by the Vietnam - Switzerland Clean Air Program under the leadership of the Environmental Protection Department to build a photo library of air quality and quality improvement activities. Hanoi gas.

The winning photos show more negative images in air environment protection than positive images. It also shows that a Hanoi in the process of developing at a rapid pace of construction, rapid urbanization entails the increase of air pollution (traffic pollution) from transport, industry and from domestic and other sources of waste. service.

Photo: '' Pho in Pho May Street ''

The photo "Environmental pollution in Lang - Hoa Lac street" (first prize) author has just shown the reality and shows the future of Hanoi with the message: we aim to a blue sky or a similarity. hybrid full of dust!

Or the photo "Burning garbage" also recorded a natural truth to . the spirit in which the author is also one of the victims of pollution from this smoke.

Many photos such as "Honeycomb coal", "" Study in pollution "", Fashion for pollution ". have shown immediately the" news " of environmental pollution. Every day, every hour around, an image of "living with air pollution" that everyone "accepts" because it's so . familiar!

There is also the author who won the most creative award with the photo report '' Solution for air pollution ''. From these photos, the Competition Organizing Committee gave the message: the current concentration of emissions, especially dust in Hanoi always exceeds the permitted threshold, affecting the health of the people. Specifically, pollutants from exhaust gases enter the lungs, even into human blood, which can cause eye and respiratory system problems such as runny nose, coughing, etc.

Photo: '' The city in sunny afternoon ''

Photo: '' Time of dust and smoke ''

Even "protection" by wearing masks only partially avoids dust, but cannot avoid pollutants and extremely fine dust particles suspended in the air. The World Health Organization also warns that the long-term effects of waste smoke can lead to male infertility and heart disease and lung cancer.

Mr. Michael Baechlin, Chief Technical Advisor of the Vietnam - Switzerland Clean Air Program, emphasized that UKK affects all of us equally! The accident does not distinguish between age and status because they all breathe in the same atmosphere.

Familiar image on Hanoi street

Kieu Minh - Photo: VNN