Copyright The Author(s). The most prominent occurrence frequency of PM concentrations shifted to a lower concentration range. © 2020 TIME USA, LLC. Indirect impact due to land use change from organic to inorganic farming leading to leeching of chemicals in nearby water bodies, Persistent Organic Pollutant such as DDT, herbicides, insecticides into the water bodies. Together, they use 1 million tons of coal a year. But health officials say the extreme peaks in PM 2.5 levels during the winter are unlike those seen anywhere else—and that young children like Almasbek stand to suffer from it the worst. Here, rickety fences divvy up hillsides pocked with smoking chimneys, pylons, and long-drop toilets. Res. 68: 123–138. All of these issues intersect in Mongolia’s water supply, with WSPs ready to take action. Consultation report. Wintertime winds in and around the Ulaanbaatar metropolitan area in the presence of a temperature inversion. In this study, improvement in particulate matter (PM) air quality was shortly studied by assessing the hourly data for the last six years, from January 2014 to February 2020. 22: 627–642. New migrants arrive on the slopes surrounding Ulan Bator, which are crammed with tens of thousands of gers and self-built houses—almost all lacking central heating, running water, and plumbing. [Publisher Site] Despite its abundance of natural resources, lakes and rivers, water quality in Mongolia has begun decreasing at an alarming rate. The average PM concentrations clearly exhibited a decreasing trend in November 2019–February 2020 compared to the previous five years. However, multiple organizations have implemented plans to address these growing concerns for water quality in Mongolia. Environ. 0000002232 00000 n EspañolContaminación en Mongolia, Copyright © 2009-2020 Numbeo. [Publisher Site] and Jadamba, B. Now, the city has among the world’s highest peaks of PM2.5—the ultrafine particles that can carry carcinogens such as arsenic and mercury and are small enough to permeate most of the body’s defensive filters. 0000003090 00000 n Nestle was discovered by Henri Nestlé in the year 1866. Mongolia's mining industry is linked with water pollution issues. Then after four or five days at home, we would have to go back again,” she says. The present latest reading for carbon concentration is 385-400 ppm as compared to the pre-industrial [ approx. Whether he developed the infection in the womb or outside was unclear, she says, but he was blue when his parents brought him in. Although air pollution as a national problem is something that many Western governments began to address in the second half of the 20th century, not all nations have the same standards, and sometimes natural forces themselves can cause pollution. Atmospheric PM concentrations from Jan 2014 to Feb 2020 are investigated. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 14: 146. 0000000016 00000 n Uugantsetseg Ganbat, an obstetrician and a director of a local family health center, sees the impact of toxic air on the 70 to 90 pregnant mothers that visit her clinic in the ger district every month. For the poorest families, even coal is too expensive: their stoves burn plastic bottles and rubber tires. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, second-leading cause of death for children. DeutschUmweltverschmutzung in der Mongolei (2008). Download Citation: The maximum PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations were reduced to 46% and 55%, respectively, compared to the mean maximum values of the previous five years. 2265 32 (2014). An assessment of air pollution and its attributable mortality in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. 20 Still, the question of Almasbek’s health nags. Water Pollution in Mongolia Introduction Mongolia is a landlocked country between China and Russia, it is one of the least densely populated country in the world with a population of hardly 2.6 million people over a surface area of 1.6 million square kilometers. 0000000959 00000 n Health 6: 589–601. 0000024113 00000 n Coal and other commodities once meant bigger business in Mongolia. Ganbat, G. and Baik, J.J. (2016). and Costa, M. (2018). 0000003985 00000 n Therefore Mongolian central government came up with policies like National Water Program (2005-2015), the Programme on Urban Development and utilities, Government Policy on Ecology, Law on Environmental protection for reducing the negative impacts of pollution (2005-2015).