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Jerome Peloquin
Sun, Sep 22, 8:33 PM (8 days ago)
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From Jerome Peloquin to:
- Alphonso Coles ,
- Norman Zwagil ,
- Dave Roeser ,
- Peter Burgess
This is a totally disruptive nano tech driven solution that will greatly enhance all of our projects - read it totally as it is an overwhelming advantage. Everyone of our projects. Will involve “Water.”
http://www.tea-after-twelve.com/all-issues/issue-02/issue-02-overview/chapter3/the-nanotechnology-miracle/
Issue #02 Chapter 3 The Nanotechnology Miracle by Héctor Lozano Gonzáles1/6
The Cascajo Wetlands in the 90s: A pristine landscape of lakes and meadows, home to more than a thousand species of migratory birds, and an oasis of peace and relaxation.
What happens though when a natural paradise we remember fondly from childhood is on the brink of complete and devastating collapse? When the land is choked with rubbish and the lake filled with poison? Do we return to the place we were once so happy to save it?
This is exactly what Peruvian-Japanese scientist Marino Morikawa did: In 2010, his father told him that the Cascajo wetlands were so contaminated that they were about to be capped. Although the environmental scientist was working at Tsukuba University laboratories in Japan at the time, he decided to fly the 15,000 km back to Peru to see with his own eyes what his father had told him about El Cascajo.
The Cascajo Wetlands are 80 km from Lima in the province of Huaral in the Chancay Valley. Marino used to go fishing with his father here as a child. 'When you go fishing, there are times when you catch fish and times you do not,” he recalls. “So when I got tired of sitting for one or two hours without catching anything, I used to walk through the wetlands and throw stones at birds to watch them fly…” Marino laughs: “Of course I’d condemn that action now, especially since I am an environmentalist, but I was just a mischievous child.” He also recalls that when his family would take their inflatable boat out to go swimming, they observed flocks of birds, even flamingos at times.
Would we return to the place we were once so happy to save it?
But when Marino returned, the area looked like an oxidation pond. 20 years had passed since his last visit. He discovered foul smelling waters in a critical stage of decay. The huge 150 hectares of wetland had diminished to a mere 40 hectares.
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