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<br />In enjoying our high standard of living, we have hecome the world's largest
<br />user of water, and produce the most "used" water,
<br />In producing haif the world's manufactured goods, we produce half its
<br />industrial wastes,
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<br />~ There I" a j!"Tcat 1l{"~'J III .IeVdl)Jl .. hetter
<br />!,ublic awarCIl{,,<~ of thl:' pollutloll problem.
<br />.\ recclltly cnmplt-te.l "llblic Ilcalth Snnct'
<br />in\elltory uf H'\\;U,O: ':ll1d HlJuslfial waSIl' \1"(',1(-
<br />IIlClII facilirjt'" <hll\\s hll\\ (:iT "l' art' ht'hind.
<br />);"(,.Hly -t,W m'W ,,('wal<(' Hl'atnwnt rbnt.< aft"
<br />needeJ to !en'" 1l1ore thall 22 million !,,,(,,nns anJ
<br />on'r 2JXll) Od1t'T prnj,'cB Jrc 11l'cdl;'1.1 to make
<br />existim: treatment worb aJt'qu31l' ("T ]Ollli1Jiflll
<br />Illon," rl'rsnll~. _\Ilhou!,h 9~ milli"n people ;If,"
<br />"eneJ hy "t'wers. less than half the ,,("walle
<br />r('cei\'e~ aJt'quJ.tc trt'.Hml'l\t Dat;:! un indus-
<br />trial w;nlc 1l1'I'd" are le"s complete but lhOSt'
<br />;nailabll' show that they arc rrobJ.bly hi",hc-T
<br />than thl' :i.7uU projecb ~h(l\\n to h~' need~'d ill a
<br />Il}q Public Ill'alth St'f\'l<:,' qudy
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<br />Monongahela and
<br />Allegheny Rivers
<br />at Pittsburgh, Pa,
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<br />Concentration of
<br />population and
<br />industry in huge
<br />metropolitan cen-
<br />ters creates d iffi-
<br />cult and complex
<br />waste disposal
<br />problem
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<br />,\1 ;1 time whcll It b u~ill): \',lH arnoUnt~ of
<br />eI.'an water, and s~ekiT1l.: Illu.;h more, th,' :\;1,\1011
<br />finds itself confrorncJ with sl'lit)u~ problems of
<br />\\'atcT pollutioll, \\"1' can 110 kmg,'r allorJ tn
<br />h('cJk~~ly wastt' \\'atcr hy p"llutj"ll: we must u~('
<br />it wi~d~' and CllllH'T\T it by .;onlT"llin~ pollution.
<br />\\'h~'n h.' arrfJinl~d the ,\J\'isory Commllu'e on
<br />\\aln R,'s<1t1rccs Policy, I'rcsiJ,'nt Eisenhowcr
<br />al'praiseJ Ih,' siw.Jtioll in lhi~ \\'a~-, "If we art'
<br />l:lIing to continue tn aJ\.Jnc(' "griculwrally and
<br />industrially. we musl makt' th,' bcH use of e\'cry
<br />.Imp cof Ilatl'r which falb /1/1 our soil. or can he
<br />~.\tract('d from till' o.;cans," This will lequire
<br />an eife({iH' ,lnJ cllminuinc fI.:itl"llal water pollu-
<br />tion cOlla,,! dinTt br c\-er~' 1l,:Her useT. This,
<br />of .;our,e, includes C\'I'r~- l'IllC l'If us
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