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Sodium Hypochlorite mouthwash

This is reported to be a safe way to kill all the bacteria in your mouth. It is reported to be effective against dental hygienists, halitosis, or root canals. It may also whiten your teeth.  Your dentist and dental hygienist may not approve.   "patients may use a diluted solution of sodium hypochlorite (bleach) (0.1% (1000 ppm available chlorine) or less dependent upon the patient's taste tolerance), This is about 1 teaspoon of bleach in 200ml of water. Here is the reference: Slots J: Primer for antimicrobial periodontal therapy. J Periodont Res 2000; 35: 108: 14

USAID Global Waters

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This is recently launched: USAID Global Waters

Person number 7 billion

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The recent NPR and UN press on the 7 billionth person From an environmental microbiology perspective Here is how the world population has grown in the last 1000 years: Source: U.N. Population Division Credit: NPR NPR Video on how the population grows to 7 billion :

Fall conferences and workshops

I’m headed to a few different local conferences during the fall quarter. Each has a water emphasis: The WEFTEC conference in Los Angeles from October 17 to 19. I’m presenting on Oct 18. https://wef.expoplanner.com/index.cfm?do=expomap.sess&event_id=2&session_id=47 Students can get into this conference for $30.  This is an amazing deal considering the free lunch you get as a student, the career connections workshops, and the competitions/exhibitions that you can watch. Registration info http://www.weftec.org/packages/ Student opportunities: http://www.weftec.org/syp/ The Healthy Communities by Design on Nov 14 & 15 http://www.llu.edu/public-health/hcbd/index.page This is a GIS conference at LLU and ESRI. I'm presenting on crowdsourcing. The Imperial County 4th annual Environmental Justice leadership summit Nov 16 & 17 http://www.ejleadershipsummit.org/ This is more of a workshop with a bus tour on day 1 and workshops on day 2.  I'm presen

Imagination and public Health: Theatre of the oppressed

I'm at KALLPA in Lima Peru.  We are listening to Dr. AndrĂ© deQuadros discuss "theatre of the oppressed" and how theatre is used as a big structure for our work in public health. Theatre allows us to create the structure with all other arts.  Why the arts? Its part of human life.    Provides an imaginary space where people can invent their solutions.    This is from Theatre of the oppressed website :  Theatre of the Oppressed is the Game of Dialogue: we play and learn together. All kinds of Games must have Discipline - clear rules that we must follow. At the same time, Games have absolute need of creativity and Freedom. TO is the perfect synthesis between the antithetic Discipline and Freedom. Without Discipline, there is no Social Life; without Freedom, there is no Life. Dr. De Quadros emphasized how actors are the interface we have between our public health project and the community. Using a theatre program can provoke imagination, create inve

Sanitation is badly off track

Does the community led total sanitation scheme work? http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/may/30/mdg-sanitation-offtrack-but-community-led-approach-is-working

Greywater system

I found this video yesterday on greywater. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1DfNlxlk-A&feature=feedf  There is lots of support for this out there.  I was most excited to find detail of what they do with their indoor washing machines. L2L3way-labels.preview.jpg This is all from greywateraction.org .