It’s a conundrum, isn’t it, that the colleages you spoke of who were bedridden with water borne ague were also educated people. But they would learn in time, I’ve no doubt. Some in the people in underdeveloped countries are neither educated nor able to learn what is causing their disease, let alone have the money to buy the precious water that might bring them a healthier life.

I lived in Africa with my parents for three years. The water where we lived was not drinkable. We boiled (and filtered) all our drinking water. The filtering was not essential for health; the boiling was. In all three years in Africa my family never had a day of sickness.

I think the charity water movement is superb. Clearly we also need other superb things to happen in these countries before the people living there do what my family did for three years while living in Africa.

Catchya later