Archive | November, 2004
Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water in Bangladesh
by François Turk, Gabrielle Schwab, Philipe Reymond, Xavier Bengoa This is the greatest case of poisoning in the history of mankind: In Bangladesh, the health of 35 to 80 million people is endangered due to water contaminated by arsenic (Figure 1 [1]). The problem was first detected in the early 1980s in the Indian state [...]
Continue reading...Education for Sustainable Development
20. November 2004
by Núria S. Besora Guerola Most people in the world today have an immediate and intuitive sense of the urgent need to build a sustainable future. They may be not be able to provide a precise definition of “sustainability” – indeed, even experts debate this issue – but they clearly sense the danger of “unsustainability” [...]
Continue reading...Continued Debate on Flood Policy in Bangladesh: Toward a Sustainable Solution
19. November 2004
by Md. Sirajul Islam Bangladesh attracts little attention from the international news media except for its occasional catastrophic flood incidents. This year’s flood was one such case, reported by news organizations all around the world. Being crisscrossed by hundreds of rivers and having a flat deltaic or flood plain, Bangladesh has a long history of [...]
Continue reading...YES: The Experience of a Lifetime
17. November 2004
by Omer Sharif Ibeny Hai (YES July 2004), Department of Computer Science, Dhaka City College, Dhaka, Bangladesh Being a student from a developing country like Bangladesh, “sustainability†is rarely a topic of discussion, especially if you are in a field other than Environmental and Conservation Science. Sometimes one might think briefly about the serious pollution [...]
Continue reading...The St. Petersburg Oil Spill Defense System
17. November 2004
by Mikhail Kalyabin Russia is one of the world’s leading oil-producing countries. Much of the oil is drilled in remote regions of Siberia and Bashkiria or from shelf deposits. To get the oil to oil-importing countries, it is pipelined or transported by trucks and river tankers to sea ports and loaded in supertankers. This movement [...]
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