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NewsNetworkToday: HAITI BIO-DIGESTOR HUMAN WASTE, METHANE, ELECTRICITY: UNITED NATIONS

NewsNetworkToday: 08 December 2009 - United Nations: The UN peacekeeping team in Haiti is implementing a Bio-Digestor programme, or public toilets in crowded urban areas that collects human waste and turns it into methane gas and then into electricity. This technology was developed by Brazilians, who are helping to implement it on a trial basis in Haiti to help solve sanitation problems and also produce clean electric energy and at the same time may help reduce the need to cut down Haiti's ...

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Stearns interview with CNN on Haiti Crisis

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Carter Center Works to Eradicate Malaria in Haiti, Dominican Republic

Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the last two countries in the Caribbean region with known cases of malaria, and former US President Jimmy Carter says he hopes to see an eventual eradication of the disease in both countries. VOA's Kane Farabaugh spoke recently with the former president and to members of his Carter Center staff in Atlanta, Georgia about their efforts to curb the mosquito-borne illness.

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