Yeah, THAT smell.

It is back. It is 5 a.m. in the morning and we can smell it even inside the house.
Taking the dogs just now made me gag, cough and almost puke, even with a shawl around my face.

What on earth is wrong with this country?
Don’t they get that there is something majorly wrong over at their oil refineries?

Or only because nobody from the Western world, like WHO or whoever, steps on their toes, they just don’t do nothing?

Does anyone out there care???

What is the deal with that nasty, oily smell in the air since a few months?
It started shortly after the heat was over.
You were glad that you could open the doors and let the fresh air in, if you don’t mind the dust coming in with it.
But now at least once a day, you have to close everything up and turn the AC on to get a very nasty and sure not healthy, sticky oil smell out of your apartment.
People are complaining about health problems. My husband gets headaches and I have a nasty cough from time to time. Weirdly mainly when that smell comes up. Wonder why…

So, does it just occur in Mangaf and Fahaheel, close to the Refineries or does this happen at other places too?

Do people just live with it or what?

(This picture was taken two weeks ago and has probably nothing to do with the air pollution, but I thought it fits…)

FOUND ON THE WEB

At least they (whoever) had a nice conference about it in November.

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A quote out of an article from the US government from ‘91 that I found.

5. THE KUWAIT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT HAS

PROVIDED DATA ON GASEOUS POLLUTANT LEVELS IN SEPTEMBER

FROM TWO OF ITS THREE FIXED AIR QUALITY MONITORING

STATIONS (MANSORIYA AND RIGA, BUT NOT JAHRA). AT

MANSORIYA, THE AVERAGE SULFUR DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION WAS

.0020 PPM, WITH A PEAK DAILY MAXIMUM READING OF .009

PPM. AT RIGA, THE AVERAGE SULFUR DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION

WAS .0011, WITH A .013 PPM PEAK DAILY READING. BOTH

SETS OF NUMBERS ARE FAR BELOW THE U.S. HEALTH ALERT

LEVEL OF .300 PPM.

It fits the idea my husband had, that that smell contains Sulfur.

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Another article about air pollution of PM10 with radionuclide Cs-137 in Kuwait City, Kuwait (study between 2004 and 2005).

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