Air pollution in Pristina is contributing greatly to family economies

Pollution comes mainly from the Kosova A and Kosova B thermocentrals, but also from many other factors, such as old diesel cars that are in large numbers in our country and from family economies that have been solved by coal because of its free price.

This is also evidenced in a video sent to Koha.net, where it sees a truck that supplies several buildings in Pristina, or in the neighborhood of “Mati”, with coal for the purpose of heating residents who live there.

Residents there complain about the situation, saying that living in that neighborhood is constantly getting heavier after buildings are constantly heated with coal.

You don't have to go to the balcony. Séke puts clothes on for drying out during the winter season after taking them more unclean than when you put them in for cleaning”, she said of Koha.net Blerta, resident of this neighborhood.

Another resident of this neighborhood, a mother of two, says that raising children in this part of the city is getting worse, even thinking about moving to an area outside the city.

The children are small and, based on the advice of air quality institutions, I have realized that this air is highly polluted and contains some dangerous particles to our health, especially our children. We're thinking about leaving this part of town, maybe even out of town. It is important that we have the good quality of air and that our children are not also endangered by breathing, as many other factors are also being endangered by”, she told Koha.net.

Ilir Morina, director of the Environment Protection Agency in Kosovo, has said he will sue all those who are alarmed by air pollution, as he holds pollution, but not in an alarming state.

In KTV's “Express”, Morina had reacted earlier this month to reports that air in Kosovo is harmful in alarming condition, saying that only the institution he leads should report on the air situation.

You have the most polluted air, so we're number one in the world, even for the first thing. It's terrible what some people are doing on Facebook even with scientific titles. I criticize them, and if they continue, the Environment Agency as the only competent body by law will file a row of”, he said.

In another video sent to the Time.net, in Pristina's “Emshire” neighbourhood, you see an object from the chimney where smoke doesn't stop, but it doesn't know exactly whether smoke comes from burning coal or any other fuel.

A civic initiative has started to spread to the social Facebook network by Leke Musa and Berat Rukiqi, who are looking to the institutions responsible for air quality to take priority.

The “ide of this letter and request has to do with establishing or reorienting government priorities on essential issues of existence and life in Kosovo! Our demand is to become the priority priority priority priority for improving air quality across Kosovo, regardless of the village or city. Freedom and democracy won since 17 years doesn't mean anything if these improvements are not felt by the citizens of the country. What freedom and democracy these citizens need when the air in which we live kills us every day! How will we be judged by future generations in Kosovo for poisoning we as generations have the responsibility for leading the country today”, says this letter from Musa and Rukiqi.

They seek, among other things, the establishment of a joint commission to identify all necessary measures to improve air quality in Pristina and Kosovo, as well as relocation of resources to ensure all the necessary means for investing in all elements of the plan, which would emerge from an expertise supervised by the upper commission.

A dynamic plan would have to be developed in this case, which clearly determines the time when this plan on cleaning up the air in Pristina would be realised and making it in a city where it can live. We as citizens of this country think that policy priorities would have to be first oriented on basic issues, such as air quality, environment, water and energy supply and health and education. Therefore, accept this as our recommendation in the process of shaping government priorities”, they say.

The National Institute of Public Health, which is obliged to inform the population of the causes of health - threatening air pollution, has announced that the city of Pristina has been immersed in smog that represents combined pollution of gas and aerosol air, which is widely seen.

We also remember that last night the air quality in Pristina has reached the value of the PQI in 431, which is considered the dangerous “”, while currently, when the clock is marking only 10:30 in the morning, the air quality in Pristina is the highly unhealthy “” reaching the 254th values. PQE.