39% of the Spanish have breathe air

Ecologists in Action has opened an infringement procedure against the Spanish State to the European authorities for not taking measures to improve air quality. Systematically, according to the organization, both exceed the limits established by European legislation and by the World Health Organization.
The environmental group has collected data each autonomous community fragmented and city records on the air quality to produce a report on air pollution in Spain. No administration carries out this work of compilation. Environmentalists itself. And the result is negative and the Spanish breathe air.
79% of the Spanish population, ie 36.9 million people breathe air that exceeds the rates of health protection recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the 'Balance of air pollution in the Spanish State in 2009 'presented by Ecologists in Action.

Spanish breathe air

Specifically, the report notes that 14% of 6.6 million people breathe air, since in these cases is beyond the limits of pollution that makes the law. Thus, the main air pollutant is traffic in metropolitan areas. The organization stresses that, despite the "seriousness" of the situation, governments are not taking the necessary steps to solve this problem and the Spanish breathe air .

The main source of pollution in urban areas (where most of the population) is the traffic.

The study analyzes the quality of air breathed in almost all of the Spanish population (46.7 million people in January 2009). The data from those providing regional administrations from their networks to measure the contamination.

Air pollution in Spain

In any case, the report notes that the situation continues the trend of slight improvement already begun in 2008, mostly due to the effect of the crisis. As in 2008, during 2009 were markedly reduced the levels of pollution compared to previous years, which has been more circumstantial reasons for the implementation of planned measures intended to reduce this pollution and the Spanish breathe air.