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Engineer offered help to developing world

As Peter Bosscher sat in his home two weeks ago, painfully ceding the last of his life to kidney cancer, the engineer was thinking about sewage in the streets.

The 53-year-old UW-Madison professor was talking to two students planning sewer and water projects in El Salvador and Ecuador to prevent sickness and better villagers ‘ health. Bosscher, their mentor, was sure they needed one last computer file.