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Pedro Sosa, spokesman of this formation requires a second metering station tropospheric ozone in the municipality and the implementation by the Centre for Atmospheric Studies of the Mediterranean, a comprehensive study to test the dynamics of pollutants and determine their origin to address the problem
Municipal councilor spokesman Group Izquierda Unida-Los Verdes in Lorca, Pedro Sosa, today demanded the installation of a second meter tropospheric ozone in the municipality.
With 1,675 square kilometers, equivalent to the territory of a small province, Lorca is the second largest municipality of Spain.
However, only it has a station control air pollution even though the World Health Organization has warned that, in so far this year in Sun City have exceeded 124 times the levels of safety-related ground-level ozone (over 100 micrograms / m3).
Although the southeast Spanish is particularly affected by ozone pollution in the region of Murcia they have been deleted two fixed measuring stations (10 have gone to eight) and those who remain, have obsolete analyzers and have their life exhausted, generating continuous and faults, according Ecologists in Action complaint.
Therefore, Sosa has demanded the Ministry of Environment of the regional government the renewal of equipment for measuring air pollution and performing, by the Centre for Atmospheric Research in the Mediterranean, a comprehensive study to test the dynamics of pollutants and determine their origin in our town.
It is therefore essential to have at least another fixed metering station in Lorca and supplement these data with those obtained by the mobile stations.
10% of schools already have asthma
According to the World Health Organization, ozone pollution causes 2,000 deaths in Spain a year from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.
In children, it prevents them achieve maximum lung volume.
And, environmental pollution and its harmful consequences spreads like wildfire among one of the most vulnerable sectors of the population: children.
Asthma, allergies and respiratory diseases have doubled their numbers in the last 15 years.
According to the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), 30% of childhood diseases are associated with the environment.
In fact, according to studies conducted by researchers at the Virgen de la Arrixaca (Murcia) university hospital, 10% of school murcianos already have asthma.
The Ministry of Environment again ignore the opinion of experts
The spokesman for United Left-Greens has returned to denounce the inaction of the regional and local administrations regarding this serious public health problem.
As an example, he lamented that no one in the government team and no other party represented in the City Council except the United Left has been interested in the information campaign on air quality and pollution by tropospheric ozone with Ecologists in Action It is touring throughout the southeast peninsula and stop in Lorca until next October 14.
According to Sosa, PP contempt for issues related to environmental health is leaving him dearly citizens of this region.
In this regard, he noted that a few years ago, the then Minister of Environment, Antonio Cerda, said that "the Mar Menor is better than ever" to justify inaction by the regional administration that has caused the practical destruction of most salt lake in this country.
"The same people who have acted as predators in that case, have in their hands to put solution to a major public health problem" that from Izquierda Unida, "we are not going to get tired of denouncing" said Sosa.
They ask that integrates Ecologists in Action in the drafting of the Mobility Plan
Finally, Pedro Sosa has demanded that the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and the Councillor for Mobility of the City of Lorca, Satur Martinez, integrating the Ecologists in Action organization in the team drafting the Plan of Sustainable Urban Mobility (PMUS) the consistory addresses right now.
"Improving the quality of life in our city is unthinkable without improving the quality of the air we breathe," said Sosa for whom Ecologists in Action and other organizations specialized in the field, are agents to take into account issues related to conservation and improvement of the environment in our town.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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