Watching mines in eastern Europe.In January 2000, cyanide cyanide (sī`ənīd'), chemical compound containing the cyano group, -CN. Cyanides are salts or esters of hydrogen cyanide (hydrocyanic acid, HCN) formed by replacing the hydrogen with a metal (e.g., sodium or potassium) or a radical (e.g. from a Romanian gold mine spilled into the Tisza River Tisza River or Tisa River River, western Ukraine, eastern Hungary, and northern Serbia. Rising in the Carpathian Mountains of western Ukraine, it flows west, forming a section of the Ukraine-Romania border, then continues southwest across Hungary and into , killing nearly all the aquatic life and fouling the drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. of millions of people. To help avoid such incidents in the future, government officials from a dozen southeastern European countries came together in May 2005 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and signed on to a new strategy calling for detailed site assessments for mines of concern, higher health and environmental standards for new mines, and plans for their eventual closure. The agreement also calls for early warning systems to warn countries downstream From the provider to the customer. Downloading files and Web pages from the Internet is the downstream side. The upstream is from the customer to the provider (requesting a Web page, sending e-mail, etc.). of mining-related pollution incidents. More than 150 mining operations exist in the area; more than a third have been labeled by the UN Environment Programme as posing a serious risk to human health, the environment, and regional stability. |
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