Letters to the Editor (September 2007)

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Letters need to make sure we give due support to our National Water Act. What’s the use of having an impressive pass-rate at a tertiary institution if we can’t make an impressive impact on the outside? Talk about job creation; here we have jobs piling up with an opportunity to fill them with competent, equipped people. Are we going to catch this challenge, or will this ball just fall on the ground and roll down the hill; into the dry riverbed? Marlese Nel, Cape Town Diatoms can be alien too Your article on diatoms being used in water quality monitoring is informative and fascinating (Water Wheel May/June 2007). Unfortunately, Dr Taylor’s remark about diatoms “cannot be relocated to a new river or propagated as part of captive breeding programmes” is blatantly untrue. If it had not already been happening for millennia – before the emergence of the Bipedal Brachiating Ape – Dr Taylor’s distinction between endemic and cosmopolitan (a term preferable to alien) would not make sense.

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