Children’s Are Getting Polluted In Our City.

Few days ago ,My friend was visited Bangkok. Me and my friend are going to office by auto-rickshaw on that time we are talking. After, then i thought it.

My article said that major Bangladesh cities are among the most polluted in the world.

Dhaka's high lead levels are blamed on the approximately 5,75,000 motor vehicles, a fifth of which are what are called "auto-rickshaws," which use "a particularly danger mixture of leaded petrol and engine oil." I can't recall seeing a motor-powered rickshaw in the classic sense, which is not to say they don't exist. What I think "auto-rickshaw" refers to is what the Thais in Bangkok call a "Tuk-Tuk." The best description I can give is to call it an oversize, boxy, three-wheel golf cart, only you wouldn't call it a golf cart. It is larger, although my recollection is that my wife and I had to snuggle to fit in.

We squeezed into one of those auto-rickshaws in Dhaka along with a friend and prayed as the driver scooted in and out of traffic. The exhaust odor hung in my moustache then as it had in similar rides in Bangkok. The ride is a worthwhile experience, but the odor and crazy driving are distasteful. We avoid these vehicles as much as possible. They are inexpensive, though, and they provide much-needed income to their drivers who lease them. We much preferred the human-powered rickshaws, which also are leased.

As for the high lead level, this was uncovered in 1998 by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission. As you would expect, the levels are highest during rush hour. Traffic police and parking guards are among the most affected because they must work in the midst of the belching vehicles. Bangkok has the same conditions. I've seen bus drivers (they drive with windows open), traffic police and parking guards wearing paper face masks to filter the exhaust. Some of the once-white masks I saw were dark grey.

Although people who work in traffic are heavily affected by the exhaust, the real worry, apparently, is the children. Those tested had blood lead levels "at least eight times higher than World Health Organization recommendations," The health officials worry that "tens of thousands of children" are "exposed to lead pollution," and that poor children who live in shanties are affected the worst. Lead causes a variety of health problems nervous disorders and epilepsy, neurological and kidney damage, high blood pressure, disrupted blood cell production, reproductive problems, It causes "long-term health problems" in children including behavioral problems, learning disabilities, retards their growth and exposes them to various other problems in later life. Lead isn't the only type of pollution that Dhaka children face. They also face water pollution. People living in cloth-covered huts along a tidal creek used the creek as a lavatory and for drinking and cooking water. Children swamp in the creek. Not a pretty sight. Nearby, apartment residents threw garbage and trash on the ground indiscriminately.