Chapter Forty-Eight
Two heavy set young men in black military style uniforms heave on the blue painted wheels and open up a gate valve. Water flows out from the large diameter pipe into a long open trough half filled with green tinged Ice crystals. The two men take boat oars and mix the Ice into the water until all the crystal has dissolved. More water is added until the trough is full. A lower valve is opened and the deadly mixture of insanity slowly feeds into another pipe.
Two other young men enter the concrete walled, pump room, pushing sacks, stacked high in wheel barrows. They stop alongside another trough and lift the sacks up, dumping Ice into it. Moving along to the other four troughs they start to fill them. The pump station has a sign on the wall. It reads, Potable for distric
