Cyclone victims' quest for clean water »
Posted by: Alexia 9 months, 2 weeks agoOne week after a devastating cyclone hit Bangladesh, thousands of people remain homeless and much needed aid is slow to arrive.
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blowback9 months, 2 weeks ago
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DanmLiberals9 months, 2 weeks ago
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blinkers9 months, 2 weeks ago
Here's one irate individual!
The observation is correct however -- no comments after all this time but still out here!
(I was going to add a comment concerning solar-powered water purification technology and its relevance to flood-prone regions such as B'desh, but there's no-one here.
It'd be a waste).
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blowback9 months, 2 weeks ago
There's an unfortunate correlation between how poverty
often finds itself residing in natural disaster zones.
Bangladesh is one such place.
I saw that what saved many Bangladeshis was a few levees
that amounted to nothing more than piles of dirt.
Perhaps, rather than send money after the fact, the world
offer the expertise of the world's best at land reclamation
and the funds to make it happen.
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Dionys9 months, 2 weeks ago
It's too bad that for some reason we can't drop water, food and cheap shelter overseas as quickly as we can drop bombs.
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