I received the latest bi-monthly copy of Saturday Evening Post today and was astonished to see metric units used in an article written by Tim Worstall, titled "Water World". The author is obviously British and claims colleagues at the Globilisation Institute in London.
Among the figures in the provided table are those indicating the "Leakage rate, cubic meters per km of main per day" for each of England, Scotland, Wales, and N. Ireland. Monetary data are provided in pounds and there is a conversion factor to dollars at the bottom of the table. No conversion factors are provided for the leakage rates. What makes this truly amazing to me is the journal in which I see these units used without conversions. The Saturday Evening Post is a venerable publication dating back to 1821. It has almost always been conservative and, in its current reincarnation, it is dedicated to nostalgia and health issues. A nice capsule history is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Evening_Post but that fails to mention that Rudyard Kipling was published in it as well as the others listed. I also recall that water main leakage and the units used were an item of discussion within UKMA at one time. Forgive me (or not) but I am cross posting this on the UKMA and USMA listservs. Jim -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
