Clean Air: From Donora to Delhi -
Can we breathe safely?
With the industrial revolution, the human mankind experienced the air pollution for the first time and realized it as a potential threat to human life. The black smoke of locomotives, factories from the industrial towns of England blackened its cities.
In 1950s, the smoke of industrialized Pennsylvania valley in USA made the air murkier. In the small town of Donora, population 14,000, residents suffered eye, nose, and throat irritation and breathing difficulties resulting in 20 deaths.
In 2008, on the 60th anniversary of the event, the town opened the Donora Smog Museum with the
slogan "Clean Air Starts Here".