EDITORIAL
Editor: James J . Morgan WASHINGTON EDITORIAL STAFF Managing Editor: Stanton S. Miller Assistant Editor: Lena C. Gibney Assistant Editor: Juiian Josephson MANUSCRIPT REViEWlNG Manager: Katherine I. Biggs Editorial Assistant: David Hanson .MANUSCRIPT EDiTlNG Associate Production Manager: Charlotte C. Sayre GRAPHICS AND PRODUCTION Head: Bacil Guiley Manager: Leroy L. Corcoran Art Director: Norman Favin Artist: Gerald M. Quinn Advisory Board: P. L. Brezonlk. David Jenkins, Charles R. O’Melia. John H.Seinfeld. John W. Winchester Published by the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 1155 16th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 Executive Director: Robert W. Cairns PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND COMMUNICATION DIVISION Director: Richard L. Kenyon ADVERTISING MANAGEMENT Centcom, Ltd. For offices and advertisers, see page 956 Please send research manuscripts to Manuscript Reviewing, feafure manuscripts to Managing Editor. For author’s guide and editorial policy, see June 1974 issue, page 549, or write Katherine I Biggs, Manuscript Reviewing Office. ES&T
Talking about water cleanup Discussion is good. It always has been and always will be. It’s good on all matters-political and technical as well as social and personal matters. And so in Denver this month, the pros of the Water Pollution Control Federation meet at another annual conclave to discuss cleanup. Everybody talks about it. In this issue ES&Ttalks all about water cleanup-the business, construction of best technology, and federal permit and monitoring requirements, as well as instrumentation, technical services, and analytical laboratories-and what many are doing about it. In a special report, ES&T’s Josephson talks about the business of the wastewater treatment industry and how its more than 300 companies that make and sell products and services for cleanup in the municipal and private sectors view the future. Spokesmen from one of this nation’s leading consulting engineering firms talk about the construction progress of the world’s largest advanced wastewater treatment plant, when complete, in Washington, D.C., at Blue Plains. Federal spokesmen of the Environmental Protection Agency talk about the progress on permits and their monitoring requirements, while an industrial representative talks about water effluent monitoring instruments which give more reliable information in less time. Additionally, ES&Ttalks about a mobile testing van for checking new technological processes on old wastewater effluents, as well as a growing number of analytical laboratories that stand ready with both services and procedures for better analyses of water pollutants. For the record, early last month EPA administrator Train met with President Ford to talk about water cleanup too, along with air cleanup, of course. To those self-appointed critics who might refer to the old saying, “Everybody talks about it but no one does anything about it,” we can only submit that talking about water cleanup must obviously come before any actual cleanup.
Volume 8, Number 10, October 1974
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