Each of the villages is served by a water well which is a trench into the fresh water lens which underlies large parts of the island. The trench is covered by a gabled aluminum roof and pumped by one or two windmills. The wells for Poland and London are several miles from the village with a three-inch pipeline connecting elevated supply tanks at the well and village. The well at Banana is in the village; plans are being made to move this village to the Main Camp area to avoid contaminating the lens. The well water is used for washing; rain water collected from the roofs in tanks is used for cooking and for drinking after boiling. The UK engineers estimate that the water lens can supply 1.2 million gallons of water per day. (This, I doubt.) For the time being, however, the wells can supply sufficient water for all purposes with present population levels. Sewage is taken care of with septic tanks; each tank generally serves four houses and common latrines. GEIDA is contemplating ultimately replacing the septic tanks with a common sewer system as well as using salt water for some purposes, e.g., toilets. Also planned for the Main Camp area are a 20-room hotel and a hospital, both to be built of concrete blocks and fully air-conditioned. The blocks are to be fabricated on the island. The hotel is expected to be completed by June 1976 to meet the schedule set for installation of a Japanese satellite tracking station since a main purpose of the hotel is to house the personnel operating the station. GEIDA also hopes to rent vehicles to those personnel as well. A major concern of GEIDA is off-loading heavy equipment, e.g. the satellite tracking antenna from ship to shore. The water depth at the pier at London appears deep enough for a large barge, but the channel has filled with sediment precluding use of the pier except for shallow draft boats. They had*no solution at the time we were there. The Royal Engineers subsequent to 1962 built a 4-line pipeline from the pier to the airstrip with 20 large fuel tanks along the ocean shore just outside London. The pipelines are of 6 in. aluminum pipe with welded joints; the tank capacity is of the order of a million gallons. They apparently planned to bring tankers to the pier to fill the tanks. We were told the tanks were full when the troops left in 1964. The old tanks (13) in London appear in good condition but do not tie into the new system. There are elementary schools at Poland and at London. They are taught by Gilbertese in Gilbertese. The school at London has about 120 pupils; 30 to 40 pupils are going on to secondary school in Tarawa. The return of students sent to secondary schools back to Christmas upon completion has been good. The school building at London appears to have been the headquarters building of the UK forces.