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49. No I think it is a combination that is hitting just right do to Round Up.

Round Up is pulling Arsenic from the ground and thus increasing the Arsenic content of the water around the fields. One characteristic of water is water tends to drop out such contaminates as it flows down stream (Old saying, cow around the bend in the creek, the water is good, cow near where you are drinking, the water is bad). Water can clean itself relatively quickly, thus the Round Up affect MAY only be in the water around the fields Round Up is being used on, but the time it gets to the village's well the affect is gone do to the natural actions of water.

In the highlands, the men may have to haul in water to where they are working, thus cleaner water for it is further from the field (and there may be less Arsenic in the High lands).

Thus I do NOT think Round Up is acting as a Carney in a Coal Mine. The Carney would be affected by bad gas before the gas would affect the miners, thus given warning to the miners to vacate the mine. The Carney was an early warning device.

Round up is acting like a Catalyst, something that is needed to get a process started, but is not needed for the process itself. Thus round up is acting like a Early Fall Storm to remind people to stock up for winter, or a massive withdraw of water from a beech, that is a sign of an impending tsunami, or the movement of clouds over water, that is often a sign of a Hurricane somewhere off shore.

This disease is more a comment that we have to be careful of the water we drink, it may look good and had been good in the past, but when circumstances change, it may become bad for us.