Archive for July, 2008
» #14 Neil Doshi
Eu também estava usando o megafoda wallpaper que o Oct postou aqui embaixo, mas comecei a achar o fundo muito pesado e resolvi trocar por algo mais clean e leve. Foi então que encontrei o The Desktop Wallpaper Project, promovido pelo Kitsune Noir, veja aqui.
O que estou usando no momento é esse aqui abaixo, feito pelo artisita canadense Neil Doshi:

» Water institute plans to clean up Dong Nai River
The Southern Institute of Water Resources Research has outlined a set of measures for authorities in 12 provinces and cities to enact in order to protect the Dong Nai River from pollution.
Speaking at a recent seminar, the institute’s deputy director, Do Tien Lanh, said the rapid economic development of the river basin area in recent years had contributed to pollution.
The increasingly threatened river network supplies water for about 12 million people and 1.85 million ha of cultivated land running through HCM City and many surrounding provinces.
According to the Environmental Protection Department, Dong Nai River is polluted by untreated wastewater from millions of households and thousands of factories.
Some areas are particularly toxic. The amount of coliform, a bacteria that causes gastrointestinal disorders, at the Bien Hoa section is estimated at between 186-920 times higher than the safety level.
The Thi Vai River is the most polluted river in the Dong Nai system, with a 10 km section from Suoi Ca – Thi Vai to My Xuan Industrial Park called the “dead river .”
The institute’s river basin protection project, approved by theGovernment last year, would cost about 2 trillion VND (125 million USD) and run until 2020.
Under the plan, a Dong Nai River Basin Protection Committee would be set up to monitor human impact on the river environment, and new factories would be equipped with clean technologies.
Eighty percent of industrial parks and export processing zones in the basin are slated to have wastewater treatment systems by 2010.
The river basin is home to 56 industrial parks and export processing zones, 21 of which have wastewater treatment systems.
Earlier this year, authorities from 12 provinces and cities in the river basin said they would not award licences to polluting industrial projects.-
» Hanoi’s Van Lake gets chemical clean
A project to clear Van Lake in Hanoi’s Temple of Literature is currently taking place with results expected this weekend.
The project is seen as a timely move since after many years of neglect, Van Lake resembles a stagnant pond with various kinds of algae seriously polluting the lake. It was this grim situation which prompted scientists to find ways to clean the water, said Nguyen Phu Tuan, the leader of the four-member team of scientists at the Hoa Lac High Technology Industrial Zone.
After two years of researching and developing a solution, a purifying substance, named LTH 100, was created from agricultural waste; it also met environmentally friendly standards. This has been certified by the Viet Nam Institute of Science and Technology, said Tuan.
The scientists applied for an invention certificate from the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Intellectual Property Department two months ago. A litre of LTH 100 can purify 60-80 cu.m of water. Van Lake, measuring 14,000 cu.m of water, will thus need 400 litres of the substance, according to Tuan.
Before clearing Van Lake, the scientists successfully purified two ponds in the Temple of Literature . They sprayed LTH 100 onto the ponds and saw that after only one day the water had cleared, the algae had died but the fish were still alive.
The team of scientists themselves paid for the expenditure, which cost 60 million VND (3,750 USD). If they had used foreign technology, the procedure could have cost more than 400 million VND (25,000 USD).-

