Polluters

Polluters

A step forward for the environmentalists with the announcement
by the government of the names of the worst river polluting
factories (The Jakarta Post, Dec. 30, 1995).

One idea to curb this type of pollution is to legislate to the
effect that factories are obliged to draw their river water
downstream of the point where they discharge their effluent so
that they are the first recipients of their own discharge.

Unfortunately, I cannot claim the credit for this idea; it is
one of the brain waves of Edward De Bono, the guru of lateral
thought.

NICK FENTON

Jakarta