Pollution in Chillán.

One of the big problems we have in Chile is pollution. In my point of view, Chillán is one of the most contaminated city in Chile, because many people use wood burning stoves, because of the cold weather. This is understandable, but they also use it even if it's not necessary. However, burning woods are not the only contamination problem that we have here. In addition, the boilers of some industries, like the milling industry, and the vehicle fleet that in the last few years has grown too much.

In Chillán, the 95% of pollution is generated by burning wood, because people use wood stoves a lot, for the cold weather, but everybody knows that this is so dangerous for our health, because the pollution increases the risk of acute respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia, and chronic diseases, such as lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

The daily air condition is determined by a forecasting system developed by the Ministry of Environment. This system incorporates the data delivered by its monitoring stations throughout the country and the weather forecast of the Meteorological Office in Chile, among other variables. Finally, the regional authority that enacts air condition for the next day and the measures associated with this.

To improve air conditions, it has tried to make a replacement on the type of burning wood stoves with more efficient as the dual-chamber, but it's a resource that isn't available to everyone.