Drizzle ‘in at least 10 areas’ as Pakistan’s first artificial rain experiment targets air pollution

Name: Pakistan’s Lahore named ‘world’s most polluted city’ as residents choke in smog
Uploaded: 2023-12-17T02:16:44.000Z
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Description: Pakistan’s Lahore named ‘world’s most polluted city’ as residents choke in smog

Pakistan has undergone its first-ever artificial rain experiment using cloud seeding, in a move carried out with the help of the United Arab Emirates

Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi said there was drizzle in ‘at least 10 areas’ of Lahore, consistently ranked the most polluted city in the world

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Published: 10:16am, 17 Dec 2023Updated: 10:20am, 17 Dec 2023

Pakistan witnessed on Saturday its first-ever artificial rain experiment, a groundbreaking move aimed at dealing with dangerous levels of air pollution.

“It drizzled in at least 10 areas of Lahore,” Punjab Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi told reporters after the first experiment in the country.

People stand by a road as another converses with a motorcycle-rickshaw driver amid heavy smog on the outskirts of Lahore earlier this week. PHOTO: AFP

Naqvi said that Lahore consistently ranked as the most polluted city in the world including on the day of the experiment.

He said authorities were monitoring the impact of artificial rain in a radius of 15 kilometres.

He said that the experiment was carried out with the help of the government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Pakistan’s Lahore named ‘world’s most polluted city’ as residents choke in smog

A team of experts from the UAE had been waiting in the city for at least two weeks. On Saturday, 48 flares were deployed for cloud seeding.

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