[at-l] Re: water filters... / thru-thinker

[KAB@concordia-ny.edu (Kurt Bodling)]

Sounds like you got yourself a good summer project here.  Go for
it!  And thanks from all of us for volunteering.

concordia

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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:21:04 -0500
> From: Clark <icw39@ncfreedom.net>
> Reply-To: icw39@ncfreedom.net
> Organization: none! :)
> CC: at-l@mailman.backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Re: water filters...
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> on the larger issue, i still think hikers such as myself could take good
> samples, and that the results would be valuable to the hiking and
> scientific community - not so much for posting a specific water source
> as "bad," but rather as a tool for gathering general regional
> information re water quality, which then might be something that could
> be factored into local water quality improvement efforts, learning what
> danger signs to look for, learning what good filters can do, helping the
> ATC gather data on a potential new issue for them to get involved in
> [think what it could mean to water quality improvement efforts if you
> had some data that triggered a more complete study, that identified a
> polluting source, and that sparked enough effort to get it cleaned up
> due in part to the public health impact on large numbers of AT hikers -
> just a possible scenario . . .], etc.
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> thru-thinker