Can't breathe. «Guard» time to shout
«Smog in Bishkek: will the city be ready for winter» – under this name, a round table was held in the capital with the participation of representatives of various ministries and departments of the republic, as well as public activists. Environmental specialists from Chelyabinsk came especially for this meeting.
Only the lazy did not speak out about the environmental situation in the capital, and throughout the republic. Various forums are being held, NGO employees tirelessly call on the authorities to do at least something to resolve this issue, but things, as they say, are still there.
Moreover, last week official sources reported that in winter in Bishkek the level of air pollution was tens of times higher than the permissible norm. Only on January 10-11, when it was snowing, the atmosphere in the capital was clean, but on January 20, 22, 23, people with high blood pressure, lung and heart diseases, and allergy sufferers were not allowed to leave the house at all. But did the authorities report this danger? This is how officials take care of our health.
Something has been done, but not enough
It cannot be said that the authorities do not pay attention to the environmental situation in the country, and, in particular, in Bishkek. Measures are being taken, but they are not yet bringing the desired result. For example, departments have been created under the Ministry of Nature and Environmental Protection that regularly monitor the environmental situation in the republic. The task assigned to the employees of these structures is serious: after all, before solving a problem, you must first study it thoroughly.
Only here everything is done through a stump deck. Equipment in the department may not conduct complete studies of the state of the atmosphere. Universal sensors, other, all kinds of high-quality measuring instruments are too expensive. The ministry budget cannot afford them. And the government doesn't seem too concerned about providing its environmentalists with everything they need.
There is a complete set of measuring equipment at the department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology of the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University. Or rather, the university has two sets of equipment (the Russian government helped with its acquisition). One stationary one, which operates at the intersection of Alma-Ata Street and Chui Avenue. Other – <TAG1>on wheels«, it can be installed anywhere in the city.
University students, together with laboratory assistants, regularly go to places where the streets are smoky, draw up reports on the work done, but none of the officials needs their work.
