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And then the process of de-mining frees up this soil, and destabilises it. And the soil erosion then carries those toxins into the water system.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Don Price, James Madison University Research Fellow\u003cbr/\u003eEleven major U-S bases in Quang Tri were located on waterways that join to become a single river - the Cua Viet - before reaching the sea.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)    \u003cbr/\u003e\"All the bases feed into this one area so it's a unique and very concentrated problem compared to other areas.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Don Price, James Madison University Research Fellow\u003cbr/\u003eBefore reaching the sea, the Cua Viet supplies water for crops and drinking water for tens of thousands of people. \u003cbr/\u003eOnce it enters the sea, the water feeds a highly productive fishing-ground which exports fish all over Vietnam.\u003cbr/\u003eBut now Quang Tri - much of it a beautiful landscape of mountains and rivers - faces a deadly dilemma.\u003cbr/\u003eTens of millions of mines, bombs and shells still wait unexploded in the soil, taking a steady toll as farmers plow their fields and scrap-collectors dig for metal which will net them eight U-S cents a kilo (kilogramme = 2.2 pounds).\u003cbr/\u003eTime has corroded the explosive devices, making them unsafe to move. \u003cbr/\u003eBut blowing them up in place will stir up dioxin in the deeper layers of the sediment, spreading it to a much larger new population throughout the province and beyond.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)    \u003cbr/\u003e\"Ecologically, the presence of landmines, unexploded ordinance and chemical toxins in this area makes it very difficult to address with standard methods.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Don Price, James Madison University Research Fellow\u003cbr/\u003eBut there's a pressing need for a solution. \u003cbr/\u003eJust this past week, decades after the end of the Vietnam War, three small children in Quang Tri were killed by the explosion of a baseball-sized pellet-bomb they had stumbled across.\u003cbr/\u003eQuang Tri province, Vietnam - 30 October 1997\u003cbr/\u003e1. Aerial shot of Quang Tri\u003cbr/\u003e2. Aerial shot showing shell and bomb craters\u003cbr/\u003e3. Archive material of Vietnam war (from Vietnam Documentary Film Studio)\u003cbr/\u003e4. Map of Vietnam - zoom into Quang Tri\u003cbr/\u003e5. Bomb detonator on ground\u003cbr/\u003e6. De-mining crew, Vietnamese army engineers, near Khe Sanh\u003cbr/\u003e7. Map of eastern Quang Tri, showing US bases\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of map\u003cbr/\u003e9. Don Price in former US base minefield\u003cbr/\u003e10. Vietnam Television archive material of US aircraft spraying herbicides\u003cbr/\u003e11. Archive material of defoliated forest\u003cbr/\u003e12. Vietnamese army de-mining crew - zoom into digging\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Don Price (standing at the mouth of Cua Viet river)\u003cbr/\u003e14. Map of river system -- zoom into words \"Cua Viet\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Don Price \u003cbr/\u003e16. Women carrying marsh weeds for animal-fodder\u003cbr/\u003e17. Boat leaving the Cua Viet River for the open sea\u003cbr/\u003e18. Bus passengers\u003cbr/\u003e19. River gorge - Quang Tri River\u003cbr/\u003e20. Patients with leg prostheses at Quang Tri Provincial Hospital\u003cbr/\u003e21. Scrap dealers weighing a bomb-casing for an anti-personnel cluster-bomb\u003cbr/\u003e22. New anti-tank mine\u003cbr/\u003e23. Corroded anti-tank mine\u003cbr/\u003e24. Claymore directed anti-personnel mine\u003cbr/\u003e25. Fishermen/women with net - pan to fishing fleet, Cua Viet estuary\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Don Price\u003cbr/\u003e27. 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