Trenutni kvalitet zraka

Cambodia, and especially its capital Phnom Penh, is just subjected to Air Pollution just like any other countries in Asia.

Cambodia ranks 162nd (out of 178 countries) at the Environmental Performance Index for Air Quality. This air pollution problem, just like other countries is South Asia, is becoming even more important for World Heritage Sites like the Angkor Archeological Park (Siem Reap) - due to the hundreds of tuk-tuks and buses carrying the tourist (check this article). You can read useful advices from the US Embassy on Phnom Penh "Dirty Air", or this interesting blog post about "Air pollution is hardly Cambodia’s highest priority".

Air Quality Data availability

Like most of the countries in Asia, there is no reason why there should not be real-time Air Quality monitoring in Cambodia, at least for Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.

Unfortunately, there is not much information about real-time Air Quality data from the Ministry of the Environment (MOE). And projects like the ASEAN-German Clean Air for Smaller Cities looked promising, but did not provide any tangible monitoring result.

The best solution for providing real-time Air Quality information in Cambodia is for the MOE to start providing official hourly AQI readings. But this can, sometimes, take more time than expected.

Light but visible Air Pollution on Phnom Penh Skyline (attribution).
(Check this articlefor an explanatiom about visual air quality)

Street 96

Street 96

Krous

Street 20

Tonle Bassac

Street 96

Building A, St 253, Phnom Penh, Institute of Technology of Cambodia

Street 360

O razinama kvalitete zraka

-	Vrijednosti indeksa kvalitete zraka (AQI).	Nivoi zdravstvene brige
0 - 50	Dobro	Kvalitet vazduha se smatra zadovoljavajućim, a zagađenje vazduha predstavlja mali ili nikakav rizik
51 -100	Umereno	Kvalitet zraka je prihvatljiv; Međutim, neki zagađivači mogu imati umjereno zabrinjavajući utjecaj na zdravstveno stanje malog broja ljudi koji su veoma osjetljivi na zagađenje zraka.
101-150	Nezdravo za osetljive grupe	Može prouzrokovati zdravstvene poteškoće kod članova osjetljivih grupa. Većina verovatno neće biti pogođena.
151-200	Nezdravi	Svako može početi osjećati posljedice na zdravlje; članovi osjetljivih grupa mogu imati ozbiljnije zdravstvene posljedice
201-300	Veoma nezdravim	Upozorenja o hitnim slučajevima. Čitava populacija će biti pogođena.
300+	Opasno	Zdravstveno upozorenje: svako može osjetiti ozbiljnije posljedice na zdravlje

Da biste saznali više o kvaliteti zraka i zagađenju, provjerite temu wikipedije o kvaliteti zraka ili airnow vodiču za kvalitet zraka i vaše zdravlje .

Za vrlo korisne zdravstvene savjete pekinškog doktora Richarda Saint Cyr MD, posjetite blog www.myhealthbeijing.com .