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Dhaka - arsenic contamination of ground water is to be arsenic-free by 2013. So far, the GE-hazardous groundwater for at least two thirds of the more than 150 million people in the South Asian country, the main drinking water source.

As Finance Minister Abdul Maal Abdul Muhit recently insured on a chemistry conference in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, the government is working on implementing its dialing mode-speech to ensure that all Bangladeshis in the latest five years, access to arsenic-free drinking water.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) lists the known arsenic exposure since 1993 of groundwater in Bangladesh the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history". Since 2000, the South Asian country of some five million wells have been tested for arsenic, one in five supports water, the burden on the already high national threshold of 50 micrograms per liter is. The WHO requires an arsenic contamination of ten micrograms per liter as the limit set.

use after investigations by the World Children's Fund UNICEF in Bangladesh, 20 million people, water that does not meet the national standard. A study of the 'British Geological Survey' of 1998 estimated their number at between 28 million and 35 million and the number of people whose water the WHO requirements does not meet up to 46 million 57 million.

arsenic-contaminated water in Bangladesh is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. Chronic arsenic poisoning or Arsenicoses leads to skin lesions, elevated blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Typical are painful and entzündungsge-prone wounds, nerve problems in his hands and legs, and after years in bladder cancer, Never acids, liver and lung.

Bangladesh is not the only country suffering from arsenic in groundwater. Even in parts of India, Nepal, Vietnam, China, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Taiwan, Mongolia and the United States, the high concentrations are of concern. Worldwide, about 50 million affected people-Fen. - IPS Europe (04/02/2009)

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Bangkok - In nordwestburmesischen Chin state endangers a rat plague the already precarious food security. The rats feed on increase of fruit and seed of flowering bamboo every 50 years, at a dizzying pace and infested fields and warehouses, once they run out of bamboo. According to estimates by experts, is to stop the plague two to three years.

are particularly affected places Tonzang, Tiddim, Htantlang, Madupi, Paletwa and Chin-Capital Hakha. The World Food Programme (WFP) has responded in January with the program 'food plus cash for work' on the emergency. The project will run until June and will help about 6,000 households.

suffer a report by the Canadian-based Chin Human Rights Organisation last July in the state on the Myanmar border of India and Bangladesh, 100,000 people or 20 percent of the population from food shortage. Earlier rat infestations in the region have led to great hunger problems.

The international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns of the current situation. In a report by the end of January, it notes that in the Chin state 70 percent of the population of 500,000 people living below the poverty line.

One of the big problems is the isolation of the state. Only 1700 km road is passable and parts of the South from the North not available. In addition, the almost 14,000-square-kilometer area is not practical to the power supply or a reliable communication system be closed. - IPS Europe (05/02/2009)