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To see why you need a rate analysis download the summer, 2006 edition of On-Tap magazine at http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/ndwc/articles/OT/SU06/OT_06_SU_web.pdf and go to page 38.

Rate analysis skeptics, read Danger - Read With Caution!