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Health and safety testing
Chemistry affects the public’s health and safety numerous times a day. Every product you use, drink, eat, take, touch, and smell has a chemical component to it. Public health and safety testing companies like NSF International, play a vital role to keep the public safer. They test things like faucets, mechanical plumbing & piping, water …
Running dry: Water and sanitation crisis threatens Syrian children
From reliefweb: “A UNICEF-led nationwide assessment – the first covering the water and sanitation sector since fighting began – reveals that in areas affected by conflict water supplies are only available at one-third of pre-crisis levels. Many people in such areas have only 25 litres of water a day, compared with 75 litres two years …
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Liberia outlines priorities for rebuilding water and sanitation sector
via Global News Network: Liberia Liberia today unveiled a five-year investment plan which outlines priorities for rebuilding the country’s water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector that had been ravaged by decades of civil conflict. Access to water and sanitation services in Liberia is still low and many facilities are no longer functioning as Liberia recovers …
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Conference Call
Conference call August 2, 2012 On the call: Bego, Nazneen, Lois (partial notes, I had to leave half-way through) Discussion began about distribution of SONO filters in the areas of Bangladesh that still need them. Filter disposal is a problem? Perhaps due to arsenic but as soon as the contaminated water is removed from the …
Chemists Without Borders in Bangladesh
Chemists Without Borders representatives were invited to Bangladesh University by the Board of Trustees to offer ideas for consideration as the University inaugurates a program of environmental science degrees and the Center for Environmental Research and Development. Ms. Rachel Pokrandt, Co-Director of K-12 Curriculum and Training, Beyond Benign (a green chemistry education enterprise) and I …
Education on your mobile device
The Chronicle on Higher Education had an interesting article about textbook manufacturers developing content for mobile phones. McGraw-Hill to Provide English Instruction and Test Prep Through Cellphones in India The mobile-phone platform could help teach millions of rural cellphone users who lack access to education, a company official said.
2009: a great year for open access
2009 has been a good year for open access; for details, see my December 11, 2009 Dramatic Growth of Open Access. Happy Holidays!
California Water Policy
I got this letter from my state legislator last week. Posted without comment. Dear Mr. Xxxxxxxxx: California’s lack of water could result in more than 800,000 acres of farmland going unplanted this year. And if the current water shortage doesn’t improve, the Central Valley could lose $1.8 billion in agricultural revenues by the end of …
Good News
Good news are a good place to blog. First of all, winning the Astellas USA award for doing work that has an impact on global health we have written “drug production in Africa” into the history books! We are pleased that the Astellas USA Foundation in conjunction with the American Cheical Society chose us for …