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		<title>Article on sanitation in The Straits Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My article on sanitation appeared in the Straits Times on the first day of Singapore International Water Week 2011 http://www.spp.nus.edu.sg/docs/media/20110704_ST_SIWW.pdf &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=191&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failing to prepare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 05:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami in Japan brought the focus once again on disaster-management. That extreme events have become common is now common knowledge; but for some reason, disaster-management becomes a topic of discussion only after a disaster. Try discussing disasters on an ordinary day with colleagues and friends and you might be told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=176&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovations galore but do not forget common sense</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/innovations-galore-but-do-not-forget-common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Desalination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been an explosion of innovative desalination technologies in the past few years thanks to the growing scarcity of clean water. In the beginning, it was confined to the oil-rich Gulf countries which had plenty of cheap energy to extract water from the sea. But swelling populations, wasteful irrigation, over-consumption, distorted pricing and generally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=153&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Forgotten Cycle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally got around to making my own film on water. Hope it makes sense!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=151&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do we really need fluoride in water?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 06:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Drinking water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why we need to have fluoride in drinking water when there is already fluoride in our toothpaste? The October 2010 issue of the journal of the American Dental Association has confirmed that infants fed with formula milk prepared from fluoridated water run a greater risk of fluorosis (mottling and discolouration of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=102&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And now peak phosphorus?</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/and-now-peak-phosphorus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ecosan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The murmurs heard a few years ago are now getting louder. The scientific community is worried and it may not be long before the mass media gets to another inconvenient truth. Phosphorus plays an important role in the metabolism of living things – in the formation of DNA, RNA and cell membranes. In humans, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=99&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enviroligious leaders must join hands</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/enviroligious-leaders-must-join-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a river is as revered as India’s Ganga (I find it hard to call it by its anglicised name), one struggles to understand why it is so polluted. Perhaps it is because the reverence only exists at an abstract level. When a corrupt government official gives a no-objection certificate to the setting up of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=95&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not quite right</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sahanasingh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Water and sanitation have been recognised as a basic human right at the UN General Assembly last month, with 122 countries voting for it and 41 abstaining. The right is not legally binding, but more like an ideal towards which countries have to work. One would believe that such a right is already implied wherever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=93&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Running for water</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/running-for-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 03:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; As I walked at the Dow Live Earth Run/Walk for Water along with thousands of others last fortnight, I wondered if the women and children whom we were symbolically supporting could feel our empathy. While I merely lugged along my own substantial weight, there were others who carried jerry cans of water to simulate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=88&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little money goes a long way</title>
		<link>http://sahanasingh.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/a-little-money-goes-a-long-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 03:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A little money goes a long way Years ago, I went inside an urban slum for the first time in my life. It was to see how improved water and sanitation facilities were affecting the lives of the dwellers. A group of women came up to me and proudly showed their bank pass books. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sahanasingh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1356539&amp;post=86&amp;subd=sahanasingh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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