The air high quality for all of Türkiye’s 81 provinces has improved by 16% on common within the final 5 years, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change has famous just lately.
According to the assertion issued by the ministry on Friday, Türkiye’s air, water and soil high quality is monitored always on the Department of Laboratory, Measurement and Monitoring affiliated to the Directorate General of Environmental Impact Assessment, Permit and Inspection (SIM).
In this context, whereas the air high quality of all provinces is monitored round the clock with a complete of 365 air high quality monitoring stations after which a five-year air high quality is evaluated, a median enchancment of 16% in air high quality was famous, together with 4% in particulate matter parameter, 46% in sulfur dioxide parameter, 18% in carbon monoxide parameter, 3% in nitrogen dioxide parameter and eight% in ozone parameter, the ministry said.
Preliminary air high quality evaluation tasks for establishing air high quality monitoring stations started in Türkiye in 2008.
As of 2016, the air high quality monitoring community within the nation has been accomplished, excluding provinces affiliated with the Southeastern Anatolia Clean Air Center.
With the classification system referred to as Air Quality Index (AQI), which is broadly used all around the world, air high quality will be graded as “good, moderate, bad and dangerous” in accordance with the concentrations of pollution within the air.
Since Türkiye grew to become a member of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the European Information and Observation Network in 2003, information obtained from air high quality monitoring stations are additionally reported yearly to the EEA.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
