Alexander Kouzminov

• PhD, MSc, Post-graduate Certificates in Environmental Law, also Environmental Science
• Featured Thought Leader at The Water Network

Cyanobacterial blooms are common seasonal phenomena occurring worldwide in fresh, estuarine and coastal waters, including those used for drinking-water supplies, recreation and stock watering. In New Zealand, the frequency of blooms and their geographic spread is likely to grow with increasing eutrophication and global climate change. The New Zeala...

Water is a God-given gift", - Winston Peters, New Zealand Acting Prime Minister. Should we accept that our blue gold is underestimated? Do we really need policy for our natural mineral waters? Can their benefit for state economy be more substantial? Our Blue Gold Resource Most of natural mineral waters in New Zealand originate in magma chamber...

This document is available on the Ministry of Health's web-site: http://www.moh.govt.nz/water/

Climate change, planetary change, mass migration and geo-politics.

Water is at the centre of some of today’s biggest challenges. Currently, an increasing number of states are experiencing permanent water stress. Competition over this precious resource could increasingly become a source of tension and even conflicts between states. The control over a water tap is no less geopolitically important than the control ov...

Pandemics as ‘Weapons of Mass-Manipulation’ Highly infectious disease outbreaks are some of the natural threats that the world faces. Much more recently, there has been an increased awareness of the potential for deliberate acts, which may lead to public emergencies, - such as chemical and biological contamination of vulnerably civilian targets,...

hd. On dit de notre époque qu’elle est celle de l’information, les technologies de l'information en sont le thème récurrent et l'évidence du quotidien moderne, et les fausses infos – «Fake news» – le tout dernier grand sujet dans les médias. Ces dernières ne sont bien sûr pas une invention toute récente mais bien au contraire, des éléments reconnus...

zf. Man nennt unser heutiges Zeitalter das Informationszeitalter, IT/Informationstechnologien sind Dauerthema und Selbstverständlichkeit im modernen Alltag, und falsche Informationen – Fake news – neuerdings grosses Thema in den Medien. Letztere sind natürlich keine Erfindung der Gegenwart, vielmehr sind sie bekannte Elemente von Machtpolitik und K...

Full text is available on https://www.slideserve.com/AlexanderKNZ/new-zealand-joint-inter-agency-zoonotic-disease-research-programme

New Zealand has developed an advanced policy for management of cyanotoxins in drinking-water systems.

An advanced policy for management of cyanotoxins in drinking0water systems has been developed. This is national criteria for assessing the risk of toxic cyanobacteria and their toxins in drinking-water supplies. These criteria are part of an integrated risk management system and regulatory policy for safety of drinking-water in New Zealand. This mu...

Epidemics arising from drinking water contaminated with faecal matter are a global health problem. Standard methods currently used for routine microbiological testing of drinking water have many limitations such as the requirement of short transport time, need to employ specialist personnel and equipment, high costs of testing materials. Manja et a...

Rapid, standardised protocol (PulseNet New Zealand) that allows patterns to be compared between gels, laboratories and countries

The New Zealand has developed national criteria for assessing and managing the risk of toxic cyanobacteria in drinking-water supplies. This multi-barrier and process-control regulatory approach is based on several planning and technical tools. Notional evaluation of economic cost of monitoring regimes and control, based on a case study - the Waikat...

Subtyping (DNA-based) databases for typing and tracking zoonotic pathogens and surveillance systems (e.g. PulseNet) has potential benefits in many areas e.g. provides early warning on the enteric zoonotic disease outbreaks, emerging water and food-borne infections, and acts of agri- and food-bioterrorism, and biosecurity risk control and management...

The Drinking-Water Standards for New Zealand 2000 detail how to assess the quality and safety of drinking-water. The Standards define drinking-water: that is, water intended to be used for human consumption, food preparation, utensil washing, oral hygiene or personal hygiene. The Standards provide criteria applicable to all drinking-water (except b...

The underground disposal of radioactive nuclear waste is one of the largest ecological problems facing the world today. Among the countries that posses atomic technology around the world, Russia is one of the largest and most influential. Moreover, since becoming an equal member of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, Russia now has...

From the moment of creation of the classical mechanic theory and to the beginning of 20th century the scientific conception of the Universe was in the nature of physico-chemical character. Organic life, human being, human intellect were included into the scientific scene of the world only exceptional, and, consequently, chance phenomenon on a cosmi...

The paper deals with determination of the relationship between the order of the arrangement of amino-acids in comparatively short-range oligopeptides (tetra-peptides) and their conformational potentialities. It is shown that the spatial and conformational possibilities of the tetra-peptides composed of the same amino-acid residues exhibit high sens...