Dear All, With all due submission we would like to draw your kind attention to the acute scarcity of pure drinking water in the rural villages and hilly areas...
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Meer Husain
matribhumi_bd
May 2, 2011 2:26 am
Prechlorination by both Calcium Hypochlorite and Sodium Hypochlorite have been extensively used in municipal and small scale arsenic removal systems in USA...
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Meer Husain
matribhumi_bd
May 5, 2011 9:59 pm
Mr Tammy Dhar recently presented an important documentary on arsenic crisis in West Bengal entitled "Jole Bish (poison in water)". I have experienced and...
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Meer Husain
matribhumi_bd
May 19, 2011 3:40 am
We have conducted a preliminary investigation on the possibility of using surface water by treating it through chlorination and filtration in arsenic affected...
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Pronoy Chatterjee
pkc_usa
May 21, 2011 3:29 pm
Meer Husain's description of filtration-chlorination process is simple and presumably inexpensive and it is known for years. Also Bangladesh has plenty of...
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Shyamal Chowdhury
sssupervision
May 21, 2011 3:39 pm
Dear All, Some of the researchers of arsenic-crisis group have wanted to know about various aspects of our arsenic test kit and quest for any test kit for iron...
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Khalid Hussain
khalidrind@...
May 22, 2011 1:52 pm
Dear Members, Here in Pakistan I am working at flood affected areas, and working on water, now we have planned for arsenic analysis, please name some...
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Meer Husain
matribhumi_bd
May 22, 2011 1:55 pm
Large scale centralized surface water treatment system would be many times cheaper than a large scale centralized arsenic removal system both in urban and...
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fakhrul islam
mfislam2000
May 24, 2011 1:05 am
I agree with Mr Meer Hussain as regards the chlorination of surface water for the arsenic affected areas if such areas have access to surface water sources. My...
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Meera M Hira-Smith
indicalmeera
May 24, 2011 1:08 am
I agree with Meer Husain. Since 2001, Project Well has implemented 167 modern dugwells, bore-dugwells and borewells of various depths, ranging from 16 to 27...
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Meer Husain
matribhumi_bd
May 26, 2011 6:55 am
On May 18th I shared with you all a handout/article entitled Shock Chlorination for Private Water Systems. Please see the article at the following website: ...
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Mahmudul Hasan
hasan_mahmud...
Jun 7, 2011 7:26 pm
Dear All, We must agree with Mr. Meer Husain as to increase our dependence and performance on using surface water for drinking and irrigation. We have lot...
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Vasant Soni
vasantsoni@...
Jun 8, 2011 4:36 am
Dear All I agree with Dr. Mahmudl Husan that maximum use of surface water should be a goal. Unfortunately what is happening in our part of the world that...
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Meer Husain
matribhumi_bd
Jun 13, 2011 3:08 am
Dr. Mahmudul Hasan properly indicated that we must increase the dependence on surface water for both drinking water and agricultural irrigation water supply....
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Vinay Chand
vinaychand@...
Jun 15, 2011 1:19 pm
Aside from my advocacy role on arsenic contamination in Bengal, I work with very advanced water purification technologies. When I first started to pay...
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iqbal zuberi
zuberimi
Jun 18, 2011 2:34 pm
Yes Dr Saqib, you are right. And the same is the case with Bangladesh. Many, many villages with millions are forced to drink arsenic contaminated water. It is...
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Richard Wilson
richardwilsonma
Jun 18, 2011 2:35 pm
The issue is whether one can get bacteria free water locally in small units. The answer is yes, but the larger wells (INDARA wells) are easier. It is not as...
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Mahmudul Hasan
hasan_mahmud...
Jun 18, 2011 2:38 pm
Dear All, At first, I would like to draw attentions of all on that I am not a PhD as some of you have mentioned in your messages. I am simply Mahmudul Hasan...
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Saqib Karori
saqib_karori
Jun 18, 2011 4:50 pm
Richard and all - I am sure in today's world, such a system is available. The issue is not really put to rest just by installing or providing these small units...
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Meer Husain
matribhumi_bd
Jun 21, 2011 1:53 am
Community based water treatment system at every corner of the street of West Bengal and Bangladesh is many times better than individual household system...
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Prof. Prosun Bhattach...
prosun_b
Jun 21, 2011 1:56 am
GSA ANNUAL MEETING http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2011/ 2011 GSA Annual Meeting ARCHEAN TO ANTHROPOCENE: THE PAST IS THE KEY TO THE FUTURE 9-12 October...
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Saqib Karori
saqib_karori
Jun 21, 2011 1:57 am
I tend to agree that surface water is a good, viable long term solution which needs proper planning, design and implementation. The argument that surface...
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Sushant Singh
sushanta_env
Jul 7, 2011 3:57 am
I agree with Mr. Chand's concern about the economics behind the treatment/filtration of surface water. The country like Bangladesh and India have several...
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Meredith Golden
mgolden@...
Sep 15, 2011 1:49 am
On behalf of Columbia University's Superfund Research Program, we would like to invite you and your colleagues to the *Columbia SRP Seminar Series on Monday,...
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Meredith Golden
mgolden@...
Oct 12, 2011 2:42 am
*On behalf of Columbia University's Superfund Research Program, we would like to invite you and your colleagues to the Columbia SRP Seminar Series on Monday,...
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Bibhash Nath
bibhash12
Oct 24, 2011 3:38 am
Deadline is Monday 28 November 2011 Dear All, The As-2012 congress will include the following themes (please refer to the website www.As2012.com.au for...
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Md.Tanvir Rahman
tanvirahman@...
Oct 31, 2011 7:46 pm
Dear All, A new paper, some of you could find it interesting! K. A. Radloff, Y. Zheng, H. A. Michael, M. Stute, B. C. Bostick, I. Mihajlov, M. Bounds, M. R....
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Meredith Golden
mgolden@...
Nov 18, 2011 10:03 pm
On behalf of Columbia University's Superfund Research Program, we would like to invite you and your colleagues to the Columbia SRP Seminar/Webinar Series on...
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John McArthur
j.mcarthur@...
Dec 3, 2011 12:38 am
Dear Colleagues, The arsenic-crisis newsgroup often brings attention to new papers concerning arsenic that are published in academic journals, but not all...
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Prof. Prosun Bhattach...
prosun_b
Dec 7, 2011 8:24 pm
*********************** For immediate dissemination *********************** Dear Colleagues, This is just a reminder for submission of abstracts for the ...
