An increase in construction activities has, undoubtedly, led to a steep rise in the suspended particles in our environment. As a result, fellow humans are complaining of airborne allergies and infections. Sneezing, coughing, running nose and irritation in the throat are some of the symptoms, which victims of air pollution show upon exposure to suspended dust particles.
Once we suffer from such airborne allergies and infections, we seek the help of our family physicians and the E.N.T. specialists. Of course, the prescribed medicine definitely heals the suffering, but it is not the cure. The cure has to be the solution of the problem from the root level. And the root of the problem of suspended dust particles is, once again, man-made: piling of mud by the roadside after digging the earth for a construction activity.
After the earth is dug up manually or mechanically, it needs to be loaded into trolleys, and deposited at safe places. Safe places refer to the vast open land that does not have human population living in its vicinity. However, in actual practice, it is not done. The contracting construction companies throw and pile the mud by the roadside for several days, and even months.
Due to natural drying by wind and sun’s heat, the compact wet mud dries and becomes loose in texture. Then it rises as dust when a gust of wind carries the loosely bound particles, and also, when the speeding motor vehicles lift the dust into the ambient air. In hot and dry climatic conditions, dust remains suspended and easily migrates in the open environment. But in cold and humid climate, dust absorbs moisture and settles on the objects like trees, buildings, clothing of humans, etc.
Natural air is free of dust, but the man-made polluted air is clogged with suspended dust particles. Our human body has been gifted to inhale fresh air and not the polluted air. Aren’t we harming our own health by our deleterious construction activities? Aren’t we responsible when we “negligently”
