Expired pesticides taken in hand
Tuareg villages in northern Mali, where water was polluted by leaking pesticides, will get safe water thanks to a E 50,000 project of the Spanish NGO Acción Contra el Hambre co-funded by the European Union. ACH will construct new wells, clean up storage depots of expired pesticides and seal contaminated wells. The project deals with 9400 litres of pesticides but at least 85,000 litres are present throughout northern Mali, especially in Gao and Aguelhoc. These pesticides could either not be applied due to civil unrest in the early 1990s or were left behind after a locust control programme ended 20 years ago.
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
2000
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46802 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99589 |
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| Summary: | Tuareg villages in northern Mali, where water was polluted by leaking pesticides, will get safe water thanks to a E 50,000 project of the Spanish NGO Acción Contra el Hambre co-funded by the European Union. ACH will construct new wells, clean up storage depots of expired pesticides and seal contaminated wells. The project deals with 9400 litres of pesticides but at least 85,000 litres are present throughout northern Mali, especially in Gao and Aguelhoc. These pesticides could either not be applied due to civil unrest in the early 1990s or were left behind after a locust control programme ended 20 years ago. |
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