http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/13/national/13FLOR.html [Free registration may be required. BIG] If you are in Florida and on a private well, please, monitor your water carefully before exposing ferrets or yourselves to it once this goes through. I know that there are always those who do not follow any news at all, and wanted to alert such people who happen to be in Florida to follow your state's news on water standards carefully for optimal health, and to be extra careful if you are on well water. It sounds like this is a new approach which brooks some caution by those of you who are serving as the experimental group till more is known on whether it can be safely enough done. Utilize precautions; you know what it's like. Around here (North-central N.J.) after major storms we always have to boil water so I figure that most people know the drill already, but some might just need this "heads-up", esp. for compromised animals. [Posted in FML issue 3387]