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On the Water Wagon MAN’S water supply problem on the moon might be solved by extracting water from volcanic rock. So read a n item from North American Aviation which crossed our desk recently. A process actually being tested at NAA’s Aero-Space Laboratories presupposes hydrous volcanic rock on the moon’s surface and uses solar energy to extract the water. So no matter where man is, water is one of his principal concerns. He has to get it, and he has to get rid of it. One of the most interesting problems in space travel, even before the problem of extracting water from the moon comes up, is disposal of liquid body wastesand the answer now seems to lie in re-use. Re-use of water by industry, of course, is old hat, as a concept. But research work is still being done on that, as well as dozens of other water topics. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare has just issued, under a 1960 date, a list of active 1958 projects in Water Supply and Pollution Control. These 280 projects cover the widest variety of subjects, from the very general to the most specific. Several are listed as reclamation and re-use, from the very general to the most specific. Three and one-half million dollars were set up for them. As might be expected, Federal money paid for the greater part of this, but industry put u p almost $500,000 and universities $1 43,000. Industry has a tremendous stake in water supply, disposal, and reclamation; it giveth, and it taketh away. Intracompany research on water conditioning and waste disposal probably is much more than the half million figure. But industry could well afford to up its share of outside-the-company research. The Upper Ohio Valley is a n important chemical industry area. Wheeling (W. Va.) College has been interested in providing further professional training for the chemists and chemical engineers in these industries, and during this year has offered its first symposium series. For next year, a t the request of a group of industrial representatives who have pledged support of the program, a series of seven lectures will be offered on “The Chemistry of Water.” This program will cover both theory and practice, from composition and properties of water to problems of boiler scale and industrial effluents. This sort of program should interest a wide variety of industrial people in the Upper Ohio Valley. I t is a program which should be attractive anywhere in the country. We commend Wheeling College for this forward step. We know that the Dearborn Chemical Co., which of course has a high corporate stake in water problems, has conducted a series of training courses in the general field of water for the past several years. Several hundred engineers have been trained in the chemistry of corrosion and scale control under contract with the Air Force. Much of this training course will be made available to the industrial public in printed form a t some future time. Water will always be with us, we hope. And we hope this is one time the chemical industry will see that a certain part of its personnel is always on the water wagon.
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