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To: John Carragher who wrote (19007)	12/7/2003 4:52:52 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793677

<<some folks told me they found the upgrades in toilet paper very helpful in the last decade when visiting some of these countries.>> I talked with a plumber who went to Haiti a few years ago as part of a church group that spent a week painting, repairing and fixing things up. No TP except in the hospital and no trees left so no leaves. They wipe with stones, leave them and the rain washes them off. People who go to the hospital don't trust the paper so they bring their own gravel and drop it in the stool. That lead to the septic line from the hospital becoming plugged. Yeppers, the sewage from the hospital flowed into the water supply. Bowel movements from sick people went unfiltered into the water reservoir. He said he could have fixed it but there was not one track hoe in Haiti he could use.