Field Guide to Hardware for Group Handwashing in Schools The simple practices of handwashing with soap and toothbrushing significantly contribute to the health and well-being of children and should be part of their education. The Filipino NGO Fit for School Inc. pioneered in supporting the national Department of Education (DepEd) in the implementation of a…
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Villagers emerge from the shade of their homes and gingerly roll up their sleeves, turning their palms upwards to reveal skin braided with dark lesions, ulcers and decaying tissue. They point to houses up and down the street where people have died of symptoms like theirs. Arsenic, an invisible, odourless poison, has haunted this village…
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In the last four years, the numbers of artisanal miners working around Prey Meas, Ratanakirri, Cambodia has increased tenfold. All miners appeared to use mercury for the first extraction of gold. Some miners used a second extraction with cyanide. Other miners used a high concentration of mercury for a second extraction that extracts more than…
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Mercury is used to extract gold in simple artisanal gold mines in Ratanakirri province, NE Cambodia. Before this project, the gold amalgam was heated with an open flame to volatilize mercury and recover gold. The process resulted in release of mercury and associated contamination. In this set of analyses from 2006 the miners hair contained…
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The mercury used by artisanal miners to extract gold contaminates thousands of miners. The extent of the toxic zone from gold mines is not clear due to the compounding effect of deforestation that is likely a larger source of mercury than the gold mines. Downstream from the gold mines, the levels of mercury in human…
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This paper documents mercury contamination along the Mekong river.
This paper is a report on the use of the CampWater™ Porta-5, a portable system that can be mounted on a truck and transported to areas where needed for the reduction of arsenic contamination.
This is a report of an extensive study of mercury contamination from gold mining in Ratanakirri province in North East Cambodia.
This paper contains a general discussion of the occurrence, health considerations, and treatments for arsenic in groundwater.
This is a report showing the results of testing a water sample in Vietnam. The report is in Vietnamese. Click here for a companion report in English.