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Khley Cheng, Tom Murphy and David Ford. Environmental Contamination in Cambodia. Cambodia. Populations around 15 millions Area 181,035 Km 2 Water 2.5%. Some problems to destroy environment. Water quality and management issues Solid waste Air pollution Deforestation Landmine - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Environmental Contamination in Cambodia
Khley Cheng, Tom Murphy and David Ford
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Cambodia
- Populations around 15 millions- Area 181,035 Km2
- Water 2.5%
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Some problems to destroy environment
• Water quality and management issues• Solid waste • Air pollution• Deforestation• Landmine • Pesticides• Mining
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Pollution
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Pollution
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Hand-held XRF – Thermo Fisher Loan-analysis in ~1 minute-no extraction or other preparation of sample-detects ppm concentrations of many metals-non destructive-no cross contamination or fouling of sensor
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Climate change is producing weather that is-wetter-hotter
-more unstable
One of the countries most sensitive to climate change-85% is rural and dependent on simple agriculture
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Cambodia Arsenic Poisoning First Obvious in 2006
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Irrigating with 500 µg/L of arsenic
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Traditional Medicines
-Collaborate with Ministry of Health-Concern about lead, mercury and arsenic additives-documented by US-CDC in Chinese, Thai and Indian “medicines” up to 10%
Hg-Warn people, suppress use, and if possible measure blood-Pb and urine-Hg in
users of these products to document toxicity
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CamcontrolPerkin-Elmer Direct Hg Analyser
• -Hg in fish – have >200 samples collected by RUPP (Vittoria Elliott) for DNA bar coding
• Support Camcontrol with XRF analysis on extremely contaminated products: skin whitening creams, mine tailings, etc
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Mercury in Cambodia - Camcontrol
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Hydropower Reservoirs
-potential 30,000 MW for hydropower projects in Lower Mekong Basin
-China has planned 15,550 MW on Mekong River by 2016.
-oil pricing pushing development
-arsenic geochemistry?
-flood control required, irrigation, fisheries?
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Mercury in Cambodia -need a network of agencies
• Eventually fish advisories likely required• -how long will reservoir in tropics remain
contaminated?
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Mercury in Consumer Products
• -33% of samples from beauty shops exceeded guidelines
Murphy, T.P., S. Lim, S.P. Huong, K. Irvine, S. Bayen, B, Kelly and K. Wilson. 2012. Application of Handheld X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzers to Identify Mercury in Skin Whitening Creams in Cambodia. J Health Pollut. 3:21-31
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50 km from mine fish had mean of 149 ppb of mercury (n=19)
-6 predator fish >200 ppb
Kratie – 1.5 kg/week Lumphat 1.0 kg/wk
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Global Increase in Mercury now Driven by Asia
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Jewelry-commonly contaminated with Pb
Found clasps with >40% Pb-ingestion has killed child in USA-chronic toxicity more common
Lead Amulets common in SE Asia
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Aluminum extraction from bauxite in Mondul Kiri, Kratie and other provinces
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Fish Anemia Study -Some fish have > iron than beef and could be used to
treat anemia.-so far <30 species processed for [Fe]