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Well, well, unlike winter, when vehicular emission and neighboring farm burns pollute the sky, this time it's mother nature lifting sands off the desert and dust from the fields. Approx 2 more weeks to go when the monsoon arrives and everything would be back to normal.

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> dust from the field

That's a man made problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

> everything would be back to normal

Which is the 11th most polluted city on the planet by PM2.5 particulate matter concentration [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_polluted_cities_b...

China (mainly northern but sometimes western) has dust storms in spring that have similar effects. It got better with tree planting, but once many of those trees died it got worse again.

Man, I am appalled at your response. What we are seeing in Delih is beyond alarming. In fact, even the so called normal in Delhi is alarming by the global pollution standards. Please avoid making such flippant comments.

PM2.5 is at a hazardous level in Punjabi Bagh.

http://aqicn.org/city/delhi/punjabi-bagh/

> Approx 2 more weeks to go when the monsoon arrives and everything would be back to normal.

Wow, that's a very indifferent take on such an alarming matter.

It'll be years or maybe even decades before things will be back to normal in Delhi.

Are there any indications that things will get better instead of worse in the next decades?

Not at all, Delhi's population has consistently grown by 1 million a year for the last decade and shows no signs of letting up. The trend towards urbanisation is strong.

The prospect of clamping down on agriculture burnoffs that plague the city during winter is limited too.

Meanwhile China has cleaned up it's award winning polluted cities quite quickly and continues to do so.

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