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Sunday, 15 May 2016

Cairo isn’t among world’s 10 most-polluted cities

Saudi and Iran — not Egypt — on list of 10 most-polluted cities in the world: The World Health Organization released an update to its air pollution database on Thursday, warning that global urban air pollution levels increased by 8%, and that over 80% of the population that live in one of the 3.000 cities covered in the WHO database are exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution. The WHO uses two measures: PM10, which measures the concentration of particulates in the air that measure 10 microns or less, and PM2.5, the concentration of fine particulate matter 2.5 micrometres or less, (which penetrate deep into the lungs and pose the greatest risk to health) where a score of 10 is considered ideal by the WHO. Any way you measure it, 3 of the top 10 most polluted cities in the world are here in the region, and surprisingly, Cairo isn’t one of them. (View chart)

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