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Friday > Archives > 2002 > August > August 30, 2002:
Hour One: Sustainability
and Water / Xenotransplantation News
This week, more than 100 prime ministers and presidents are meeting
in Johannesburg South Africa for the UN World Summit on Sustainable
Development. In this hour of Science Friday, we'll get an update from
the conference, and take a closer look at one of its goals -- increasing
access to fresh water around the world. What policies and practices
should be used to ensure the availability of fresh water now and in
the years to come?
Plus, we'll hear the latest news on organ transplantation. Speaking
at a conference this week in Florida, scientists announced that they
have created cloned 'double-knockout' pigs that don't produce some
of the chemicals that trigger human organ rejection. Does this mean
that human use of organs from pigs may become easier? Call in with
your comments and questions at 1-800-989-8255, and share your opinions
online in our Listeners'
Lounge (registration
required).
Guests:
Richard Harris
Science Correspondent
National Public Radio
Washington, DC
Sir Richard Jolly
Chairman, WASH
Campaign
Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative
Council
Geneva, Switzerland
Sandra Postel
Director, Global
Water Policy Project
Worldwatch Institute
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Environmental Studies
Mount Holyoke College
Amherst, Massachusetts
David K.C. Cooper
Associate Professor, Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Head, Xenotransplantation Group
Transplantation Biology Research Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
United
Nations: Johannesburg Summit 2002
Smart
Communities Network: Water Efficiency Introduction
WSSCC
Web site - Water is life
Sustainable
Development - Issues/Freshwater
USGS
-- Water Resources of the United States
The
World's Water - Title
Water,
Sanitation and Health - Index
World Bank Water Supply
and Sanitation
FDA Backgrounder:
Xenotransplantation
CNN:
Pig Donor 'Breakthrough' Claimed
This segment produced by Annette
Heist and Dorothy Lam
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