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Article: Tauw is Training Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to Clean up Pesticides.
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- Economics Week
- Article date:
- July 10, 2009
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Tauw has been commissioned by the World Bank to be a consultant in how to
approach old pesticides and organic contaminations that are difficult to decompose (POPs) in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The consultants at Tauw will take care of the transfer of knowledge about drawing up an inventory and how to deal with the old storage places of these toxic substances. The contract was signed on June 3.
In each of the three countries, ten people will be trained to track down and make an inventory of old storage spaces. In addition, one dumping site in each country will be more closely inspected, after which a sanitation technique will be designed.
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