G20 Summit: Anti-Smog Guns, Water Sprinklers Deployed To Control Pollution In National Capital

The two-day G20 Summit is being held at Pragati Maidan's Bharat Mandapam, where leaders from all member countries have gathered to discuss pressing global issues and collaborative solutions.

MCD has deployed anti-smog guns and water sprinklers to control pollution in Delhi. ( Image Source :Getty )

New Delhi: As the 18th edition of the G20 Summit is underway in Delhi, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Saturday said that it has deployed anti-smog guns and water sprinklers to control pollution in the national capital.

“The MCD is putting main emphasis on roads around G20 summit. Municipal corporation of Delhi has deployed 20 anti-smog guns at pollution hotspots to control pollution. The anti smog guns have been deployed at sanitary landfill sites situated at Bhalaswa, Ghazipur and Okhla and pollution hotspot at Anand Vihar,” an MCD official said.

The two-day G20 Summit is being held at Pragati Maidan's Bharat Mandapam, where leaders from all member countries have gathered to discuss pressing global issues and collaborative solutions.

In order to combat pollution, the MCD said that 15 anti-smog guns have also been deployed at high-rise buildings, Civil Lines, Green Park zonal building and Tilak Nagar Colony hospital. 

According to the MCD official, “Municipal corporation of Delhi has pressed 253 water sprinklers, which includes 30 truck mounted anti-smog guns which sprinkle roads with an average of 9-10 km of road length per day per machine which translates to approximately 2,000 km per day."

Treated STP water is being used in these water sprinklers and the MCD is tracking these sprinklers through GPS with real-time monitoring, the official said. 

MCD is fully committed to providing clean and green surroundings to the citizens of Delhi, officials added. 

Leaders from all the member countries, including United States President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, have arrived in India in New Delhi to attend the G20 Summit this weekend.