an essay on beat the heat in lockdown
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With little access to air conditioners or parks during the coronavirus lockdown, India’s poor - from farmers to slum-dwellers - could face deadly threats from heat waves this summer, climate and disaster management experts have warned.
Crippling heat waves, drought and water scarcity usually grip India during the summer months of May and June. Authorities regularly issue advisories on how to keep cool, including advice to drink water frequently, find shady spots and use fans.
But following that advice could be more difficult this year with most of the country’s 1.3 billion people trapped indoors as a result of a lockdown to try to stem spread of the coronavirus.
Conditions will be particularly harsh for the poor living in small, cramped homes with no air conditioners, little ventilation and irregular water and power supplies.
“Vulnerable communities are on the front lines of crises ranging from extreme heat (and) climate change to COVID-19,” said Anjali Jaiswal of the U.S.-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
“The risks of extreme heat are deadly. Heat is not merely an inconvenience, it kills,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in emailed comments.
India’s virus lockdown - enforced beginning March 25 - quickly prompted tens of thousands of poor migrant workers to walk hundreds of miles back to their home villages in blazing heat, with scores falling ill or dying along the way.
The past decade has been India’s hottest on record, with extreme heat directly killing about 350 people last year, according to the national weather office.
Temperatures so far this year have hit 41 degrees Celsius (105 Fahrenheit) in New Delhi. Parts of the western desert state of Rajasthan have recorded temperatures of nearly 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in recent weeks.
Overall, the Indian Meteorological Department has predicted a warmer-than-usual summer between April and June.
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Krishiv gupta are you of class 7th.................Bal bharati public school Pitamapura...?
you are asking these questions for the holiday homework? i am also in that school and we were in same class in 5th??
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