{"id":77994,"date":"2018-04-24T08:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T08:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/the-hushed-tsunami-that-no-one-knows-about\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:42:48","slug":"the-hushed-tsunami-that-no-one-knows-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/the-hushed-tsunami-that-no-one-knows-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The hushed tsunami that no one knows about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"384\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/4- Apr\/24\/Invironment 3 - Copy 1.jpg\" width=\"698\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): National Environmental Protection Agency Afghanistan &#8211; NEPA and the Ministry of Public Health have launched a two-day conference in Kabul, titled &ldquo;Effects of Pollution on Public Health&rdquo;, aimed at examining the effects of air pollution on health and the environment and finding a solution to prevent further damage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Afghanistan&rsquo;s Ambassador to Canada, Shinkai Karokhail said the air pollution is like a silent tsunami, which the residents of Afghanistan still do not know about it.<\/p>\n<p>Excessive population density and non-planned expansion of populations in the cities, unsustainable use of natural resources, consumption of low-grade fuel, increased number of worn-out vehicles, and the lack of urban canalization are factors that intensify this hushed tsunami, Shinkai Karokhail added.<\/p>\n<p>The NEPA officials said such conferences will help us take better measures to prevent damage to the environment in which we are living.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Environmental Protection Agency Afghanistan &#8211; NEPA and the Ministry of Public Health have launched a two-day conference in Kabul, titled \u201cEffects of Pollution on Public Health\u201d, aimed at examining the effects of air pollution on health and the en<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}