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• T o meet demands for sewagetreatment plants in the U. S. in the next six years will require 20 billion dollars. This information, quoted from the November 14, 1966, issue of U. S. News and World Report, was sum marized from 11 days of testimony from experts on pollution to the House Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Development. The chemical industry, of course, is one of the prime contributors to pollution in the waterways. Fortu nately, industry is willing, by and large, to contribute significantly to the solution of some of the problems it helps to create. This month's "Report for Analyt ical Chemists," (26A) by Dr. A. A. Rosen of the Federal Water Pol lution Control Administration in Cincinnati, is based on an address that Dr. Rosen gave at this year's Pittsburgh Conference. Judging from the response to his talk, and to the symposium of which it was a part [see ANAL. CHEM. ; 39 (6), 95A (1967)], it is apparent that ana lytical chemists and spectroscopists are aware of, and interested in, the great challenges that lie ahead in this line of work. Indeed, from a very selfish stand point we might consider that ana lytical chemists should have a very privileged position among the phys ical and political scientists—from limnologists to economists—who will be required for the great battle against pollution during the next several years. Their contributions, in devising ways and means of de tection and identification of pollut ants have already been great. Considering the vast amount of money that is to be spent, there is little doubt that industries associ ated with analytical chemistry should also be in a privileged posi tion : for developing and producing reliable instrumentation for detec tion or continuous monitoring; for supplying reagents needed for test ing; and for catering to the needs of chemists who will be developing new analytical methods.
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