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This is the VOA Special English Development Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com

The lack of clean drinking water is a major problem worldwide. The World Health Organization says more than one billion people live in areas where renewable water resources are not available. The problem is especially serious in Asia and the Pacific.
A United Nations report says water availability in that area is the second lowest in the world, after Africa.
Nearly seven hundred thousand people in Asia and the Pacific lack safe drinking water. The U.N. report notes that the world’s poorest countries are also the ones that use the most water for agriculture. Agriculture uses about eighty percent of the water in the Asia-Pacific area. There has also been an increase in water used for industry. China and India more than tripled their industrial water use between nineteen ninety-two and two thousand two.
The lack of clean drinking water around the world forces millions of people to drink unsafe water.
This leads to an increase in diseases like diarrhea, the second leading cause of death in children under five. Floods, droughts, pollution and
climate change have created
even more problems.
The Millennium Development Goals
for two thousand fifteen call for a
fifty percent decrease in the number
of people without safe drinking water
and basic sanitation.
Scientists, governments and aid organizations around the world are increasing their efforts to meet these goals. Still, the U.N. says there is much work to be done. During its yearly World Water Day observance in March it called on the international community to work together to solve the water crisis. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are doing just that.
The American and South Korean researchers are investigating a new technology for turning sea water into drinking water. The new technology is called ion concentration polarization. The process uses electricity to
help separate electrically charged
salt particles from water to
make it drinkable.
The researchers tested their desalination process on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.
The chip removed ninety-nine percent of the salt and other harmful substances from water samples.
So far the method purifies only small amounts of water. But the researchers say it may someday be available as a personal water purification product.
And that’s the VOA Special English Development Report.

(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 05Apr2010)

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Names origin of the ancient Gods were Pelasgean, and have sense only in Albanian language! Pelasgians were made of three kingdoms Thrace-Macedonians, Illyrians, and Epiriotes, etc. All three of them had something incommon, they spoke a similar language, worshiped the same ancient dieties, had the same traditions which are Pelasgian, and are explained in a meaningful way by the Albanian language of More.. modern days. Robert D’Angely in ‘Enigma’ supports the same idea that Albanian language explains the Pelasgian gods known as Greek mythology. Also, another writer Aristidh Kola in his book ‘The Language of Gods’ supports the same idea: Albanian language is the language of ancient ‘Greek’ mythology. Nermin Vlora Falaski does the same. This book is a must read in order to understand the truth about the origin of the most ancient people in the World, the Pelasgians, today’s Albanians.
Elizabeth J. Pyatt, Linguistic PhD, Pennsylvania State University USA: “In 3200 BC, there were many, many languages spoken besides Sumerian and Egyptian, but they were not fortunate enough to have a writing system. These languages are just as old. To take one interesting case, the Albanian language (spoken north of Greece) was not written down until about the 15th century AD, yet Ptolemy mentions the people in the first century BC.* The linguistic and archaeological evidence suggests that Albanians were a distinct people for even longer than that. So Albanian has probably existed for several millennia, but has only been written down for 500 years. With a twist of fate, Albanian might be considered very “old” and Greek pretty “new”.”

‘A connection between the language of the ancient Phrygians of Asia Minor and the Illyrians has also been made and it is believed that the ancient Illyri-Thraco tribe, the Bryges,(once inhabitants of Macedon and Thrace) were one and the same people’(Wilkes1992:145)

‘Phrygians constituted the main body of the population of the greater part of Thrace, Macedonia, and Illyricum’ (p.622)

William Smith & Mahmoud Saba – Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography 1857

Cavalli Sforza is an Italian population geneticist who teaches at Stanford University in California. He claimed that the Albanian and Armenian languages originated with the first wave of Neolithic farmers. Albanian together with Armenian are the oldest languages that came into use when humans first started to farm. The real name for farmers is ar-beres = ar-banas = arberesh. In Albanian ”ar” translates into agricultural land, and “bere” translates into do/make, so Arberesh = farming the land, farmers. These claims are documented in Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, it was published in 2001 after 10 years of intense research by different scientists

Kuptohet qe kjo video eshte nje pune siperfaqsore dhe e pergjithshme, nuk eshte e plote dhe perfundimtare… Ka shume materjale dhe autore qe nuk jane sjelle edhe sepse kerkojne nje pune voluminoze dhe njohri akoma me te thella ne fushen e gjuhesise, etnologjise, historise etj.
Une po mundohem te hedh vetem hapin e pare ne krijimin e videove te tilla, shpresoj se te tjere kane per te vazhduar krijimin e videove te tjera me materjale akoma me interesante dhe te plota pasi ky eshte 1 detyrim per te gjith…

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