Indoor pollution kills one person every 20 sec!

Indoor air pollution kills one person every 20 seconds! The world worries about air pollution, with most of the concern focused on outdoor smog and emissions.

What many people are not aware of indoor air pollution, which the World Health Organization says kills 1.6 million people around the world yearly, or one in every 20 seconds.

The highest air pollution exposures occur in the indoor environment, particularly in developing countries. Over half the world's population still cooks with solid fuels - wood, coal, dung, crop residues and charcoal. A deadly combination of solid fuels, inefficient stoves and poor ventilation triggers off a complex mix of health damaging pollutants in homes.

In India, where 80 per cent of households use solid fuel, an estimated half million children die annually from indoor