Environment Minister Ján Budaj (OLaNO) announced on Tuesday that new website, dnesdycham.sk (today I breathe), has been set up in order to allow the public to look up information about current air quality. "This is our contribution to the public, so that they can easily find out every day whether exhaust-emission limits have been exceeded in individual regions," stated the minister, noting that approximately one million Slovaks breathe polluted air.
Information about air quality is regularly collected by 38 stations belonging to the Slovak Hydro-meteorological Institute. Budaj claimed that this number will grow. According to him, the air in Slovakia is most often polluted by sulphur oxides, which are produced by industry and energy plants.
Romana Grajcarová, Photo: TASR
