Name of the authors: MOŢ PATRICIA, MACHIDON RUXANDRA, HORDUNA DAVID
Age: 16 years
Name of school: LICEUL TEORETIC “AUREL VLAICU”
Country, county, city: ROMÂNIA,
PRAHOVA, BREAZA
Coording
theacher: VĂSII AURA DOINA
Keeping the air fresh
Air
pollution is an invisible problem. However, the consequences for our daily
health and comfort are serious. Good air quality is a prerequisite for health
and prosperity.
Every day, each of us breathes
between 15,000 and 20,000 liters of air -
enough to fill in the volume of three hot air balloons in a year. A man can
survive for more than 30 days without food, about two, three days without
water, but without air he can not live for more than a few minutes.
Even
though more and more people are paying attention to allimentation, by carefully
choosing the food and water they consume, few of them think about the quality
of the air they breathe.
Breaza
is a city in Prahova county, located approximately 100 km from Bucharest. The
locality is lsituated in the sub-Carpathian area, at an altitude of 380-450 m,
on a terrace 50-60 m above the Prahova River bed. The climate is specific to
Subcarpathian hills, with an average temperature of 19.6 ° C and about 129
shiny day over the year. The flora and fauna are diverse, the hydrograph being
composed of the Prahova River and its tributaries.
Until
now, Breaza has been considered a
balneoclimateric station since 1928. Having an air rich in negative and
well-ozonized ions, Breaza was often compared to the Swiss Alps, Davos. On the
surrounding hills you can find orchards, forests, pastures and meadows, flora
and fauna being richly represented. The benefit of fresh air and a stimulating
bioclimate, characterized by low atmospheric pressure, the cure regime in the
resort is recommended in asthenic neurosis, neuro-asthenic syndromes,
endocrinometabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism and
dyslipidemias, peripheral circulatory disorders, hypertension , airway
disorders, anemia, and more.
Eden
Foundation-Balneoclimateric Resort
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The clean air in Breaza is due to the fact that the town hasn’t
developed any polluting industry, but lately, because the number of vehicles
has increased and many of them are second-class and bad-maintained, the air
purity is affected.
Lack of care of residents and even of tourists leads to the
accumulation of waste, both unsightly and polluting, in some areas.Lately,
trees in the public domain, as well as people in the courtyard of the people,
have been cut, resulting in loss of air quality.
Long-term
damage of air quality can lead to more serious health consequences such as
asthma, cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, diseases of the nervous and
reproductive systems. According to a study by the World Health Organization
(OMS) in 2016, 92% of the world's
population is breathing polluted air.
Ways of combating pollution:
- regular
tree planting;
- reducing
the use of motor vehicles;
- using
bicycles more frequently;
- the
calculated use of electricity, because its production pollutes different
environments.
We are
all responsible for the pollution and we can only help reduce the harmful
emissions and improve the air quality that our lungs breathe!
Sources:
-http://www.greenpeace.org/romania/ro/campanii/schimbari-climatice-energie/poluarea-aerului/
-https://www.libertatea.ro/stiri/stiri-interne/p-aer-elvetian-la-breaza-1004043
The outcome of this project is going to be
disseminated by means of local media:
