Key Environmental Issues in Cambodia

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Key Environmental Issues in Cambodia
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Environmental Issue

• Energy efficiency, technology
• Air Pollution (Urban area from traffic)
• Water Resource management
• Waste water and sanitation
• Rural water supply
• Shortage of Water Resource in some places
  and keeps increasing
• Wildlife extinction/ degradation
• Forest degradation
• The fisheries decline
• Land Conflict
• Pesticide/food contamination
• Climate Change

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• Urban environmental issues
• Water supply and Sanitation- shortage of Water
  resource
• Air quality
• Energy efficiency and technology
• Land issues
• Natural
• Forestry
• Fishery
• Biodiversity- endangered species ..

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Training Priorities

• Analysis capacity (biological, chemical and
  geological)- water, solid waste, soil or air
• Statistical Sampling, sampling technique,
  sampling preservation and analysis
• Case study on wastes, soil and air
• Modeling application for wastewater (migration of
  pollutants in soil) and air pollution
• Remediation of soil pollution (heavy metals and
  HC)- in-situ and ex-situ

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Research Priorities

• Water quality and wastewater treatments
• Clean water production and distribution modality
• Integrated research on soil-water system
  (anaerobic and aerobic condition)
• Air pollution monitoring and modeling

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Equipments

• Laboratory (28,000)
• ICP, AAS, UV-Spectrophotometer, GC, IC
• Microbalance, TOC, Pure water preparation
• Incubators, Oven, water bath, glove box,
  desiccators, electronic balance, mercury analysis
  in soil
• Field work
• High volume sampler, Mini vol, passive tube
  samplers, Soil samplers, portable laboratory