clean water

Last night I finished a fascinating book titled Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization, by W. Hodding Carter. In it, Mr. Carter not only writes how plumbers have changed history but that they have the ability to greatly help save our future. Simple technology in India is solving the horrendous problems of massive amounts of toxic and pathogenic excreta entering water supplies. Today as I'm working the polls and waiting for the mere less than 1% of my precinct's eligible voters to crawl from the woodwork and vote, I read in the Houston Chronicle where that has precisely started yesterday big time--in Texas!