Welcome to Clean Air Network’s Pollution Alert Service (BETA). Please enter your email, then choose the air quality monitoring stations from which you would like to receive alerts when the Hong Kong Government API exceeds 100. The Government monitors air quality with a network of 14 stations, of which only 3 are roadside monitors.
Roadside emissions harm human health the most.
Although the standards on which the API are based are more than 20 years old, we have, for the time being, decided to align our alert system with the Government’s warnings. Because of how outdated the API is, air quality readings below 100 do NOT indicate that the air is healthy to breathe. Rather, Hong Kong’s maximum pollutant guidelines presently permit 2-4 times the pollutant levels recommended by the WHO.
What we do know is that air quality above 100 is definitely HAZARDOUS to human health.
Please Note: This email alert service is in beta and may be subject to minor changes to improve service and performance.
Hello Joanne,
I don’t have a facebook a/c. Pls tell how much we are affected by polution from north of the border. During the Chinese New Yr holidays. The air was much clearer. I thought it was then cleaner. I thought it was because majority of factory north of us are closed. Do you think that our feeble government can get the Guangdong authorities to help ?
Best regards
T C Lee
Hi there,
Thanks for your comment!
Our government and their counterparts in Guangdong seem to have taken the first step. They signed a joint cooperation pact recently, wherein one of the key initiatives is tackling regional air pollution. Whether they will follow through on this remains to be seen. We have to continue to let the HK govt know that better air quality is a priority.
The press release on the pact can be found here.
Guangzhou is also making plans to reduce air pollution significantly in prepration for the 2010 Asian Games, which are happening in November. We posted about that on our website here.
Hope that’s helpful!
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Please help us!!!
We are dying in a very modern, beautiful city,
The air are so bad I walk around with my hand covering my mouth and nose.
We are living in a city where everyone smoke, without really having a cigarette in our hand.
The old and young have to stay indoor on most bad days.
A city with so many high tech building but we are living in a big ashtray.
The government treat us like little children. telling us “we are making big affect to reduce air population”, so far nothing is done but there are more bad days than good day.
HELP!!!!!
Thanks for making this website.
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