You may have already seen the attached but I found it particularly hard
hitting.
Regards,
Leigh Warhurst
Environmental Protection Technician - Land
Ashfield District Council
Urban Road
Kirkby in Ashfield
NG17 8DA
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Sent: 18 August 2009 11:34
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Subject: Re: arsenicosis article
I think arsenic is only one of the many problems relating to water
supply in developing countries
one of our food inspectors is part of http://waterforkids.org.uk/
he showed me an article about stoping mosquitoes laying in water
containers from Uganda and standard practice is to pour diesel into the
drinking water storage tank and another practice of using acid from dead
car batteries as a weed killer.
this makes arsenic a bit of a minor issue when the human additives are
as bad if not worse than what is in the water to begin with
Thanks
Gareth Rees (Mgeol HONS FGS)
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Sent: 18 August 2009 11:03
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Subject: Re: arsenicosis article
Try the Soil Code, produced by MAFF - Reference: Ministry of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Welsh Office Agriculture Department.
Code of Good Agricultural Practice for the Protection of Soil. 1998.
for more information.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:59 AM
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Subject: Re: arsenicosis article
Good article Owen. Never worked as VSO, but (for those who
have) what analysis is general done about the water on the numerous
charitable organisations who drill wells in other 3rd World countries?
I'm sure the benefit of water vs no water is the main order of the day.
I've also always wondered more closer to home what controls
there are on agricultural soil. The elixir to modern living which is
organic does save us from all the pesticides, but not what is in the
soil being uptaken by the crop. Tried to get a bit of info from my
friend Farmer John who took 5 years to get his farm 'organic', but was
unsure as to the chemical status of the soils he was growing his crop!
Regards
Nik
Mr N Reynolds
BSc(Hons), MSc, CGeol, FGS, EurGeol
Environmental Geologist
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All
Please find attached an interesting arsenic related article that
appeared in July's Geographical - The Magazine of the Royal Geographical
Society. The author (Adrian Page) has very kindly allowed its
reproduction on the condition that it furthers the consideration and
understanding of the impacts of elevated arsenic on human health.
There's also a brief radio interview relating to arsenic take-up
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