Portal de Lorca
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Aragon Minerva Padilla, coordinator of the information campaign on tropospheric ozone in the southeast this morning before the media exposure on air quality and tropospheric ozone pollution currently visiting the city.
This exhibition consists of a series of explanatory panels on how it is formed, how it affects the health and solutions to this problem.
This campaign, which will cover some 12 locations from June to October, is a portable traveling exhibition, as well as organizing lectures and guided tours for Institutes, neighborhood associations and municipal corporations and visits today at 20:00 h will be held an explanatory talk by Pedro Belmonte, a member of Ecologists in Action, in that building.
The objective of this project is to improve the information of the general public on ozone air quality and reduce their exposure in the affected territories.
Exposure to ozone pollution causes respiratory problems, eye irritation, increased symptoms of asthma and allergies and affects mainly pregnant women, children, the elderly and high-performance athletes, so communication is essential in real time riesgo.Esta these groups of substances, as well as affecting health, it also affects the vegetation producing the rate of growth of crops (such as tomatoes, watermelon and lettuce, among others), decrease by up to 20% and increasing also their vulnerability to pests and diseases.
According to data from the web of air quality of the Regiónde Murcia it has already occurred 32 days exceeded the daily limit value of 120 micrograms / m3 at the station of Lorca.
This organization recalls that the legislation establishes a maximum of 25 days of exceedances per calendar year averaged over a period of three years.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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