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To: Ilaine who wrote (26938)	12/27/2007 10:48:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217745

Once upon a time, long long ago, I was a civil engineer at Onehunga Borough Council and we had a water purification plant under construction and it was very problematic. Water purification is big business and a LOT of it is needed. The huge sales of bottled water are because water quality is so bad. Maybe it's time he invented a patented water purification system which doesn't require huge expense to install in small towns. A turnkey thing which local yokels could plug in to their local creek and be in business with clean water. At Rangataua, there was a pipe in a creek, a sand filter and that was it. Not good enough. Increasingly health laws are requiring water suppliers to meet minimum standards. With photovoltaics and Globalstar data backhaul, they could be monitored and managed remotely. Email could be sent to the local village chief on his Globalstar phone to top up the chlorine, tune up the ozone, replace the ultraviolet light and collect some more flocculation agent from the train station. All very simple of course. No tricky stuff. While you are at it, you could provide a Zenbu Wi-Fi system so they could have cyberspace, with Skype phones for voice for rent. Mqurice PS: I am sitting at iSite at Viaduct Basin using the Zenbu Wi-Fi system they have here and my cute little Asus Eee PC which is a Linux "laptop" which is more like a palm top but it has a full keyboard. This little computer cost only US$300 and has no Microsoft software on it. It is very fast turning on and off, uses tiny electricity. Doesn't get viruses. Has lots of software ready installed. Use it right out of the box. Perfect for Zenbu. It can even be used as a server in our server stack. Recommendation = short Microsoft, buy this thing for out and about and also at home. Plug in a nice big screen and keyboard at home.