It has been awhile since I last wrote. During this time I have traveled to Saudi Arabia where I worked to bring into existence, inshala, a program to treat the waters which are being discharged into the Red Sea and into a large lake which is filled with untreated sewage. It is remarkable that many, if not most of the people there with whom I have interacted understand the serious nature of the public health and safety issues and also have formed a belief in the efficacy of the treatments which have been proposed...and yet...programs to stop the pollution and to treat the pollution are delayed and postponed without apparent reason.