It's situated on the river Volga, one of the greatest rivers in Russia. It is over 400 years old and is one of the biggest Russian cities. Over 800,000 people live here but every day dozens of people come to Saratov from the nearest towns for work in the morning and go back in the evening in their own cars, of course. So you can imagine the state of our air with thousands of cars and factories. Polluted air is one of the biggest problems in my region.

Another one being water and landfill pollution due to illegal dumps. Every year we throw away around 400 mil tons of rubbish and only a tiny part of it gets recycled.

What is more, one of our main specialities is agriculture but this industry is not controlled at all. Due to the use of fertilisers more and more soil is losing its fertility and we're getting less harvest and less money. 

These are the main ecological problems of my region. Do you have similar problems in your country/hometown? How do you solve them?