The Union of Hiking Tourism of Kyrgyzstan is pleased to announce the completion of the Action "Taza Too - Clean Mountains" 2014, during which three clean-up events were held in the Alamedin and Kegety gorges, as well as in the Issyk-Ata gorge.
The company "Kumtor" will help restore the irrigation infrastructure and repair the roads leading to the mountain pastures in the Ton district. As reported on May 15 by the head of the local district state administration, Bakyt Ryspaev, the company is currently supporting the implementation of projects aimed at restoring the district's irrigation system. During the work, the daily regulation basins will be cleaned and reinforced, irrigation channels will be restored, river
Most major cities in China suffer from incredibly dense smog and traffic jams. So much so that a Beijing artist managed to sell a half-liter jar of fresh mountain air from France, where he was on a business trip, for $845 at auction! In order to prevent the worsening of the environmental situation in the city, the authorities in Shanghai (with a population exceeding 24 million people) are conducting auctions for the sale of vehicle license plates. This is intended to limit the number of new
A research associate at the University of Navarra (UPNA) recently announced the development of nanostructures that significantly simplify the process of water disinfection. The new nanostructures are coated with titanium oxide, to which nitrogen has been added. This allows for the initiation of a chemical reaction that breaks down pollutants in water using sunlight, rather than just ultraviolet radiation. In her doctoral dissertation, Silvia Larumb-Abuin describes these nanostructures.
It is unlikely that any of us has seriously thought about where the water goes when it is poured down the sink or flushed down the toilet. What happens to the food scraps and the products of our daily activities that disappear into the pipes along with the water? Wastewater treatment today is one of those issues that requires special attention. The ecology of the modern world is so fragile and vulnerable due to the constant negative impact of human civilization on all its components that the
In the Uzgen district of the Osh region, in the villages of Don Bulak, the rising water level in the Jazy River poses a threat of flooding to 110 hectares of arable land. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, an operational team has been dispatched to the scene to assess the situation.