UNESCO ARSENIC POLLUTION CLEANSER
October 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLUNESCO, the UN's scientific and cultural organisation, has launched a filter removing arsenic from water and which could, it claims, save tens of millions of lives from a pollutant created by many mines. Unveiled at its headquarters in Paris, UNESCO said the filter was "simple and ecologically sound", using as an absorbent recycled iron oxide coated sand produced as a by-product in groundwater treatment plants "available at no cost almost everywhere". Developer, the UNESCO Institute for Water Education said: "Plants in many countries around the ...
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