@ LOE > January 31, 2003

After three years, the villages using nylon filters had reduced their cholera rate by 40 percent, but the sari cloth did even better, cutting the cholera rate in half. And in a poverty-stricken village, sari cloth has two other advantages: it’s cheap and readily available.

コレラの伝染を防ぐ手段として readily available (入手しやすい）とのこと。

各値の抵抗、各容量のコンデンサ、などの電子部品が近くのコンビニで買えます、と readily available な状態になれば数割高くても自宅在庫せずにそこで買うかも。