Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year \u2013 up from 86 per cent annually today \u2013 by 2021.<\/p>\n
The municipality plans to have seven mobile air-monitoring stations by 2020 to capture more accurate data in hourly and daily trends of pollution.<\/p>\n
These will be on the Palm Jumeirah, Al Qusais, Muhaisnah, Rashidiyah, Al Wasl, Al Quoz and Dubai Investment Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will allow real-time responding for emergency cases,\u201d said Khaldoon Al Daraji, first environment safety officer at the municipality.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re in a good position except for the cases that are out of our hands, such as sandstorms.<\/p>\n
\u201cSandstorms are our main concern because the UAE is just a receiver.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hotspots are Iran, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, but we\u2019re working hard with the region to reduce the cycle of sandstorm generation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Al Daraji said monitoring as it stood covered 47 per cent of Dubai.<\/p>\n
There are 12 fixed stations in the emirate, but Dubai also receives information from monitors belonging to other entities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are 25 stations in total,\u201d Mr Al Daraji said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe added new technology and equipment used for the first time for the detection of heavy metals.<\/p>\n
\u201cA hundred parameters can be detected but we want to expand it to make sure that the data captured can allow a baseline study in some areas to ensure they are well positioned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,5438,5141,86,10196,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-119339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-standard","10":"tag-story","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uae-desk-team","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}