Air Pollution in Kuwait

Air defilement is one of the problems facing the international communities. Air contamination is known to put one across devastating effects on the environment. capital of Kuwait has a long narrative of crinkle pollution since the era of the disjuncture War. During the disjuncture War, more than 600 crude wells were set on fire tip to loss of 6 million barrels of anele anyday and devastating air pollution. in that location were large pools and lakes of embrocate that led to water and land pollution.The burning oil colour wells of Kuwait, which were equated to Chernobyl disaster, emitted tons of green house gases like treat dioxide, coke monoxide, carbon dioxide, and oxides of nitrogen leading to devastating effects on comprise and animals. Although the oil fires were put tabu, the imprint on the environment are steady evident many more years after the Gulf War. Since the vast air pollution during the Gulf War, Kuwait has made progress in cleaning the environment bu t air pollution is still rampant.Policy ChallengeSince the Gulf War, air pollution is still a major problem in Kuwait. The government has embarked on a massive program to clean the air but the policies adopted arrive not provided total solution to the problem.Kuwait milieu Public Authority has been on the frontline in fighting the air pollution problems which dates back to the Gulf War era. However, most of the environmental policies that were formulated by the government then were aimed at reversing air pollution effect of the Gulf War and most of them have not been able to tackle the up-to-the-minute problems (Al Jeran and Khan, 2009).There has been tremendous growth in population in the country and the clientele environment has also grown in different ways. Large answer in cities and towns has led to annexd air pollution mainly from increase number of vehicles emitting tons of pollutant gases every day. Kuwait oil industry which is the linchpin economic activity in the cou ntry has also contributed to air pollution.Analysis of the problemAccording to the results of a study that was published in Al-Qabas Newspaper in June 2006, more than 86.9% of Kuwait population considers air pollution as the biggest environmental challenge they have to deal with (Al-Mutairi and Koushki, 2009). This is evidence of increased air pollution which shows that there has been poor progress to reverse the effect of the Gulf wars more than a ten-spot later.Air pollution in Kuwait has been contributed by two main sources including embark and oil industry. Studies have reveals that automobiles are the main mode of transport in the country with an comely employed person making more than 6.1 trips every day with a mean length of 13.6 km.Studies also show an average individual is likely to be delayed for more than 68 proceedings everyday in traffic congestion (Koushki, 2007). A study carried out in 2005 revealed that an average Kuwait resident traveling to and from work gener ated intimately (Al-Mutairi and Koushki, 2009)a) 31,275 tons of Volatile Organic Compoundsb) 247,764 tones of carbon monoxidec) 19,594 tons of oxides of nitrogend) 1,703 tons of sulfur dioxidee) 6 million tons of carbon dioxideTraffic has been rated as the leading cause of air pollution in Kuwait urban areas.However, in the rural and urban areas, power stations and oil refinery plants makes a wide contribution to air pollution as well. Kuwait is one of the oil rich countries and oil contributed a large part to the country GDP. However, oil exploration has come with serious effects on the environment, notably grey-headed clouds of smoke from oil refineries that goes up the sky.