ENVIRONMENTAL ALERT: While air quality has improved since authorities in India declared a health emergency last weekend, the battle over polluted rivers across the country is ongoing.
Schools reopened on Wednesday in the Indian capital with toxic air level coming down by more than half since authorities declared a health emergency last weekend.
Air pollution in New Delhi peaks around Nov. 1 due to smog from festival fireworks and smoke from the burning of stubbles in agricultural fields. Authorities also barred smoke-spewing cargo trucks from city streets, experimented at limiting the number of cars on the road and tried to snuff out stubble and garbage fires and ordered builders to cover construction sites to stop dust from enveloping the area.
Water from the river is chemically treated before being supplied to Delhi's nearly 20 million residents as drinking water.
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