Urban Air Pollution

URBAN POLLUTION
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Urban Air Pollution
There is an estimation of one billion people who are subjected to outdoor air pollution every year. The urban air pollution may be connected to around one million premature deaths as well as one million pre-native deaths per year. Moreover, urban air pollution is believed to cost estimate of two percent of Gross Domestic Product, GDP in the developing countries and the developed countries (Kampa & Castanas, 2008). The pollution continues to increase because of rapid urbanization, yet it brings grave danger to living beings, thus attracting appropriate measures to be put to practice in various countries. Find herein, a research of the recently monitored levels of Nitrogen Dioxide in the United Kingdom.
Nitrogen dioxide or NO2 is among the group of gases that are called nitrogen oxides. One of the causal of nitrogen oxides is believed to be road transport that has been estimated to bring around fifty percent of the entire emissions. In addition, the gas boilers in the buildings are popularly known as among the sources of nitrogen oxides. This means that, the levels of nitrogen dioxide are usually high in places that are close to busy roads, as well as large urban areas (Donaldson & Donaldson, 2006). Nitrogen dioxide has been proven in many occasions as very harmful to health. The practice of monitoring and trying to reduce the nitrogen dioxide levels in the air within the streets of London is very active, taking the records almost every day to assess the improvements, as well as stagnations. In the high street of Wandsworth Putney, the data of nitrogen dioxide has been recorded thoroughly in the last few days (Brulle & Pellow, 2006). On 1st April 2014, the levels of nitrogen dioxide were at an hourly mean concentration of around seventy-nine before rising up to a mean grade of two hundred and eighty-three. The mean concentration level then dropped as the hours went by and closing the day at eighty-two on second of April in the morning (Donaldson & Donaldson, 2006). The NO2 levels, on the second of April remained quite constant although, at some point, it reached one hundred and eight meters cubic, crossing to third of April at eighty-two meters cubic. The highest mean concentration level experienced on that day was one hundred and eleven and the lowest was twenty-five, which later crossed over with a mean concentration of fifty-three on fourth of April. Similarly, the highest level of NO2 mean concentration was two hundred and forty-four, while the lowest was eighty-five cubic meters and winding up at ninety-six on fifth in the morning. The concentration level then went down to a mean of forty-two, but later in the day rose to one hundred and seventy-four, and wound up at a mean concentration of fifty-two cubic meters (Donaldson & Donaldson, 2006). The sixth of April was a beautiful day that experienced the third lowest level of concentration that week as i...