Air is one of the most basic requirements for life.
Without clean air, most living things cannot survive. However, being colourless and odourless, clean air is probably the natural resource we most take for granted. We tend to notice the air we breathe only when it is polluted. During most of the year, air quality within the GVRD is good, and easily meets federal objectives for every regulated air pollutant. In fact, for most common air contaminants, our air quality is now substantially better than it was fifteen years ago, even with the growth in population and economic activity that has occurred since 1985.