mrz
06-12-02, 17:39
Tainted wells pour arsenic onto food crops
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In a terrible irony, arsenic entered the Bangladeshi water supply when UNICEF and other international agencies sank millions of tube wells to provide clean drinking water. But the wells tapped into groundwater contaminated by arsenic from sedimentary deposits deep below Bangladesh.
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993141
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Heavy water
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Drinking water in Kosovo could end up being contaminated with radioactive uranium at levels in breach of safety limits, warns the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). A new study by an international team of scientists says the water should be monitored and the uranium cleaned up.
Over 30,000 shells containing nine tonnes of depleted uranium (DU) were fired by US A-10 aircraft at 112 sites in Kosovo during the conflict in 1999. The material is very dense and helps the shells penetrate armour.
Because of controversy over how this might endanger the health of local people, 11 of the sites have been examined for UNEP by 14 scientists from the US and Europe.
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999506
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Afghanistan faces an environmental crisis
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Bombing will also leave its mark beyond the obvious craters. Defence analysts say that while depleted uranium has been used less in Afghanistan than in the Kosovo conflict, conventional explosives will litter the country with pollutants. They contain toxic compounds such as cyclonite, a carcinogen, and rocket propellants contain perchlorates, which damage thyroid glands.
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991733
http://www.maroc.nl/nieuws/forums/showthread.php?threadid=50157
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In a terrible irony, arsenic entered the Bangladeshi water supply when UNICEF and other international agencies sank millions of tube wells to provide clean drinking water. But the wells tapped into groundwater contaminated by arsenic from sedimentary deposits deep below Bangladesh.
...
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993141
quote:
Heavy water
...
Drinking water in Kosovo could end up being contaminated with radioactive uranium at levels in breach of safety limits, warns the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). A new study by an international team of scientists says the water should be monitored and the uranium cleaned up.
Over 30,000 shells containing nine tonnes of depleted uranium (DU) were fired by US A-10 aircraft at 112 sites in Kosovo during the conflict in 1999. The material is very dense and helps the shells penetrate armour.
Because of controversy over how this might endanger the health of local people, 11 of the sites have been examined for UNEP by 14 scientists from the US and Europe.
...
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999506
quote:
Afghanistan faces an environmental crisis
...
Bombing will also leave its mark beyond the obvious craters. Defence analysts say that while depleted uranium has been used less in Afghanistan than in the Kosovo conflict, conventional explosives will litter the country with pollutants. They contain toxic compounds such as cyclonite, a carcinogen, and rocket propellants contain perchlorates, which damage thyroid glands.
...
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991733
http://www.maroc.nl/nieuws/forums/showthread.php?threadid=50157