Resources to monitor ambient air quality

Eco education / 29.05.2020

Information about pollution in your city – by the distance of the click. It is possible to monitor the air quality and pollution of rivers in Ukraine, your city, district or even all over the world.

We prepared a list of useful resources.

Ecocity is a network of public air quality monitoring. Project of eco-activists and public organizations engaged in environmental protection.

The service shows the air quality in the online mode on the whole territory of Ukraine, where the monitoring stations are installed. They are visible on the map. After clicking on one of them you will see concentrations of pollutants in this area. The list of measured concentrations depends on the station’s equipment. Air quality index is also deducted. Pollution levels are clearly indicated by colors. At the bottom of the page describes what each color means and what human health consequences cause this environmental condition. There is information on pollution two days earlier.

On this resource you will find the station SPKR.

Environmental monitoring at the Krivoy Rog Resource Center. Project of the City Council of Krivoy Rog in cooperation with industrial enterprises of the city. The site displays data from the city stations and those belonging to polluting enterprises.

It is possible to see the concentration of pollutants in real time and average daily, to trace the levels of contamination in the past. Unfortunately, the system does not have “Metinvest’s” stations, as well as the results of observations from them on the sites of enterprises. Although the representatives of the GZK report that the stations are installed and working, the city environmental program is executed. The level of pollution on the microareas of the Pivnicniy GZK and Ingulets can be traced to the results of measurements of the stations of the

Interested in how there are around the world – look at one of the global sites, such as the site of the World air quality monitoring. It is also possible to view ratings of pollution countries. Click the checkbox in the part of the world that interests you and see the information about the air condition in real time.

Learn about the pollution of rivers can be found on the site “clean water”. This is a draft of the state agency of Water Resources and the agency for journalistic data. The data from the agency’s observations from 2014 in more than 400 points of the country are reflected on the online map. You will see changes in the level of pollution of rivers by years and separately on different substances. There is information about the channel Dnipro-Krivoy Rog.

Look to these resources – there is interesting and unexpected.