Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Cloud seeding to clear air in six towns in Sarawak

KUCHING: Cloud seeding will be carried out over six major towns in Sarawak where the haze has worsened.

The state Meteorological Services Department has been instructed to do that after unhealthy air levels were recorded.

The worst affected was the central region Sarikei which recorded an Air Pollutant Index (API) reading of 175 at 11am yesterday.

Other towns with unhealthy readings were Sibu (158), Sri Aman (157), Petra Jaya, in Kuching city north (143), Samarahan (124) and Kapit (110).

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