SHMÚ is asking the envierorezort for money for its operation
The institute applies to the environmental department for co-financing.
Slovaks may not know what the weather forecast will be like in Slovakia after the summer. The director of the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMÚ) admitted such a possibility. He has a lack of money to function. Weather would not be the only layer of information.
We are not just predicting the weather. Explains the General Director of SHMÚ. They monitor air quality across the country, monitor the flood situation, storm activity and the possibility of radioactivity spreading.
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“Without it, we would not be able to evaluate whether any pollutants got to Slovakia, whether something leaked, and what the air quality is in Slovakia,” SHMÚ General Director Martin Benko approached.
For this year, SHMÚ received 7,900,000 euros from the Ministry of the Environment. The management of the institute claims that this is not enough for the whole year, because it already works only thanks to reserves. He therefore asks for co-financing, but even the environment does not have the money for it, and therefore it must be financed by the Ministry of Finance.
“Thanks to the austerity measures that we have taken and that we will implement, we have managed to achieve the risk of unsecured activities being postponed sometime between the end of February to the end of the summer.” Benko added.