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News:Anti-smog guns have been installed at 14 large project sites in Delhi.
Facts:
- Anti-smog gun is a device designed to reduce air pollution by spraying water into the atmosphere so that all the dust and polluted particles get clear from the environment.
- The gun is attached to a water tank built on a movable vehicle which can be taken to various parts of the city.
Additional information:
- Smog Towers:They are large-scale air purifiers usually fitted with multiple layers of air filters which cleans the air of pollutants as it passes through them.
- Smog:Smog is basically derived from the merging of two words; smoke and fog.It is a yellowish or blackish fog formed mainly by a mixture of pollutants in the atmosphere.
