More automatic air quality monitoring stations to be built nationwide
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) held a teleconference on March 23 to discuss a project on forming a network of air quality monitoring stations in Vietnam.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Natural Resources andEnvironment (MoNRE) held a teleconference on March 23 to discuss a project onforming a network of air quality monitoring stations in Vietnam.
The event heard that in recent years, airquality monitoring has begun to attract attention, helping authorities detectenvironmental problems and work out appropriate solutions at an early date.
However, monitoring activities have yet to meetthe demand for data since the number, scale and density of stations are stillmodest and they are arranged unevenly, making them unable to reflect the airenvironment in a sufficient and timely manner.
While the application of modern monitoringtechnologies remains sluggish, the operation of automatic stations hasencountered many difficulties, participants in the meeting said.
Experts pointed out an urgent need to increaseautomatic monitoring stations and maintain their operations to providesufficient, timely and precise data about air quality for authorities; improvethe air quality warning and forecasting capacity; and promote Vietnam’sintegration into regional and global environmental monitoring activities.
Minister Tran Hong Ha said the building of amodern and synchronous automatic monitoring network from the central tograssroots levels to specify sources and risks of pollution will be animportant stride in environmental monitoring.
Effective monitoring of pollution sources willhelp with the issuance of plans for air pollution prevention and control, henoted.
Ha added aside from meeting technical standards,those stations should be situated at places under less impact from pollutionsources so as to have stable and typical indexes representing the air qualityof each locality./.
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