Government to debate annual environment report

The government on Wednesday is set to debate the annual report on the Czech environment, published by the Environment Ministry. According to the report, the environment has been slightly improving over the recent years, with cleaner water and increasing number of households connected to a public sewage system with wastewater treatment plants. One of the persisting problems highlighted by the report is poor air quality, which is affecting especially the heavily-industrialised Moravia and Silesia. Air pollution is a problem especially in the winter months, when the situation gets worse due to city transport and coal heating.