If you'd like to do your own investigation, here is a list of the world's environmental agencies and the URLs of those on-line. As you'll quickly see, all of these items are in English because that is what we read best. It includes annual reports, budgetary allocations, the full report of its 1996 State of the Environment, comprehensive policy statements, full texts of major environmental legislation, media statements from key policymakers. The Federal Environment Agency has an interesting feature which allows visitors to learn about air and water quality throughout Austria daily. For air quality, a map of the country is provided.
Monitoring done for water quality information is also online.
Complete time series of maps of the biological quality of running waters are available. The environmental agency for the state of Sao Paulo has some interesting data on hand for surfers in its English web section. The is water pollution load data showing potential loads versus tonnage removed, as well as numbers of air emissions, air quality, and solid waste tonnage. The Ministry of Environment has put the Czech Environmental Yearbooks online from 1993 through 1996. The yearbooks have data on production, consumption, solid waste generation, air and water emissions, as well as statistical information on environment and health.