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Letters: Let’s learn from a past water supply tragedy

Saturday 10 August 2019 | Published in Letters to the Editor

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Letters: Let’s learn from a past water supply tragedy
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When the last section of our public water supply pipeline was commissioned in the early 1960s, many people became sick after drinking water from the new reticulated system, and this contributed to three deaths.

When the last section of our public water supply pipeline was commissioned in the early 1960s, many people became sick after drinking water from the new reticulated system, and this contributed to three deaths.


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