Welcome!
By this website we wish to offer you useful and interesting information on air quality.
The website is achieved by the National Institute for Research, Development and Testing in Electrical Engineering – ICMET Craiova (www.icmet.ro) within the project „Joint Risk Monitoring during Emergencies in the Danube Area Border” – MIS ETC 166 code, financed under the Romania-Bulgaria Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013.
„Air Quality” means the state of the air around us. A „good” air is a clean, clear and unpolluted air and it is essential to maintain life on our planet. It is very important for each of us to be aware that the choices we make every day have a negative or positive impact on air quality: travelling by our own car or travelling by public transport; using fossil fuels for house heating or using clean energy sources (solar, wind, geothermal energy); the house lighting with classic glow-lamp or the lighting with modern devices with low power consumption.
Therefore, we considered that a website containing information on the pollutants in the atmosphere; institutions with prerogatives and responsibilities in the environment field, air quality monitoring stations existing within the Romania-Bulgaria cross-border area, as well as the results obtained by ICMET Craiova within the above mentioned project, will play a significant role in raising the public awareness regarding the problems of air quality, in general, and in particular within the Danube border area between Romania and Bulgaria.
Every one interested in air pollution level can view on this website the real time transmitted data from the 5 (five) air quality monitoring stations carried out by ICMET Craiova within the project „Joint Risk Monitoring during Emergencies in the Danube Area Border”.
The website has a section with data bases regarding emission inventories of pollution sources existing in the Ro-Bg cross-border area available only for environment authorities from both countries. The access will be granted by pasword. The password will be communicated by ICMET Craiova to each authority following a written request.
Hoping that we will provide nothing but interesting information, we look forward to your comments.
Thank you!
The project team of ICMET Craiova