Your article on home-water disinfection in Africa reminds me of a water treatment method proposed a long time ago. It consisted of a long (200-foot), U-shape tube sunk in the ground as part of the water-delivery system. No organism could survive the pressure at the bottom of it.
Lawrence Elden Dearborn, Mich.
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