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LOS ANGELES: India could make a major dent in air pollution and save about 270,000 lives a year by curbing emissions from dirty household fuels such as wood, dung, coal, and kerosene, a study co-led by researchers from IIT Delhi has found.
Eliminating emissions from these sources -- without any changes to industrial or vehicle emissions -- would bring the average outdoor air pollution levels below the country's air quality standard, according to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mitigating the use of household fuels could also reduce air pollution-related deaths in the country by about 13 percent, which is equivalent to saving about 270,000 lives a year, said researchers, including Sagnik Dey of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
"Household fuels are the single biggest source of outdoor air pollution in India," said Kirk R Smith, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the US.
We looked at what would happen if they only cleaned up households, and we came to this counterintuitive result that the whole country would reach national air pollution standards if they did that," Smith said in a statement.
Eliminating emissions from these sources -- without any changes to industrial or vehicle emissions -- would bring the average outdoor air pollution levels below the country's air quality standard, according to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mitigating the use of household fuels could also reduce air pollution-related deaths in the country by about 13 percent, which is equivalent to saving about 270,000 lives a year, said researchers, including Sagnik Dey of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
"Household fuels are the single biggest source of outdoor air pollution in India," said Kirk R Smith, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the US.
We looked at what would happen if they only cleaned up households, and we came to this counterintuitive result that the whole country would reach national air pollution standards if they did that," Smith said in a statement.
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