Does your metro city have clean air?

Is the air you breathe in your city safe? You’ll know starting December as all 18 cities and municipalities in Metro Manila will have their own real-time air quality monitoring station. At present there are only 3 monitoring stations left to build and these are in the cities of Pasig, Mandaluyong and Parañaque, Environment Management Bureau (EMB) Director Jonas Leones said. By December, the EMB will be able to publish hourly measurements of air quality and post these on the EMB website. The hourly results will be measurements of PM10 or particulate matter 10 microns and below in diameter. PM10 are particles small enough they can be breathed into the lungs and cause respiratory diseases.

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