Environment, Water and Agriculture System (EWA) will soon launch the first initiative of its kind at the national level to establish a centralized unit for real-time monitoring of air quality and source emission control, which will reflect on public health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by activating the relevant legislation.

This initiative will contribute to achieving a qualitative transformation through an electronic map showing air quality in the Kingdom's regions with real-time data for all stations, including indicators, measurement and concentration of pollutants by each station if you click on any particular station. The initiative is to expand the current national network for monitoring ambient air pollutants at the level of the Kingdom's cities and increase its comprehensiveness to cover all regions and cities of the Kingdom.

This initiative will contribute to achieving a qualitative transformation through an electronic map showing air quality in the Kingdom's regions with real-time data for all stations.

All industrial facilities (chimneys), which are estimated to number about 7,000 facilities in the Kingdom, will be required to establish a self-monitoring system to monitor air pollutant emissions from the facility. Dr. Khalil bin Musleh Al-Thaqafi, General Director of Meteorology and Environmental Protection, confirmed that the initiative comes within the initiatives of the National Transformation Program 2020, the first step towards materializing the Kingdom's Vision 2030 as an approach and map for economic and developmental work in the Kingdom, which sets directions, general policies, targets and commitments for it to be a leading model at all levels.

The initiative is to expand the current national network for monitoring air pollutants in the Kingdom.