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Friday, May 16, 1969 Griffin Daily News
Pollution
Deserts Must
Bloom Again
About 60 per cent of the
earth’s land area is dry of
downright arid, incapable of
eupporting agriculture. It now
accommodates only about S per
cent of the world’s people. But
if the population doubles 1" the
next few decades as predicted,
these now largely empty spaces
must be transformed into
“living spaces.”
The deserts must be made to
bloom again.
Can this be done? Has
mankind learned anything from
the mistakes of the past, some
es which actually created
deserts where none existed?
In the United States we have
ctripped vast acreages of trees
and sod. V’- have built great
cities and greater suburbs. The
result has been to spc-- 1 the
runoff of water and to increase
the frequency of flash flooding.
Running water Is power, and
we use it to manufacture
electricity and create huge
reservoirs that are a blessing
to farmer- and a Joy to fisher
men an others seeking solace
In and on the water. No the
least thing to be said of these
manmade lakes is that they are
beautiful.
But we also have created
anting and erosion problems,
and have destroyed much of the
thin layer of topsoil which is the
sole source of our agriclutural
wealth.
Not all floods, of course, are
to be blamed on man. But in
many regions, notably Southern
California, they have been
aggravated by what man has
done to the land.
Every year about 75,000
Americans are driven from
their homes by floods. Damage
Is about *1 billion.
To save and increase water
resources and prevent or at
least mitigate the effects of
floods, this country has spent
many billions. It can hardly be
doubted that this money has
been well spent.
But are we really tackling our
water problems in the best way
—for us. and our descendants?
There are those who fear we
are not.
In the Far West we pump out
eur ground water for decades
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1. A faculty that is well trained scholastically and spiritually.
S. A faculty that will give love and special attention to each
student, demand respect and enforse discipline.
4. Limited enrollment (20-25 pupils per class), which is
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emphasise spiritual values and patrotic Americanism.
%. Guidance and counseling available to all students.
7. Bible study as part of the daily curriculum.
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before we learn we must return
unconsumed surplus water to
these precious reservoirs to
keep them alive. So the Central
Valley of California is gradually
sinking and killing some of its
subsurface water resources.
In the southern high plains of
Texas and New Mexico we are
depleting underground water
stores which would take nature
many centuries to replenish if
they w'ere exhausted.
But man does have to try to
solve his water problems. He
has learned to recharge his
aquifers with what otherwise
would be water wasted as
runoff.
He also is learning to
conserve water resources he
used to throw away.
Santee, a town near San
Diego, has provided an example
of what can be done to get the
most out of scarce water
supplies. By treating and
filtering sewage, it is restoring
a million gallons of water a day
to drinking quality.
In Los Angeles County one
purification plant re cl ai ms
10,000 acre-feet of water a year
out of a trunk sewer.
The Bethlehem Steel Co.
takes the entire sewage of the
city of Baltimore and, after
treatment, uses it for industrial
purposes. The total is more
than 125 million gallons a day.
Forgetting the billions of
future inhabitants of this planet
for the moment, presei.. emer
gencies call for immediate
solutions.
Desalination of seawater is
one of these. The Atomic
Energy Commission has a
grand thought for changing
desert coastlands of the world
into latter day oases.
Build huge nuclear plants
capable of producing a million
kilwatts of electricity and at the
same time, with nuclear heat,
desalting 400 million gallons of
water a day.
The Federal Council for
Science and Technology in 1966
proposed a 10-year program for
water resources research. It
called for stepped up research,
not overlooking the field r * "far
out ideas.”
A decade ago a California
oceanographer noted that some
big Icebergs from Antarctica
drift far enough north to come
within capture distance of
interested persons above the
equator.
He suggested that bergs
might be towed to anchorage off
Los Angeles, say, and be made
to give up their locked-in fresh
water for the uses of man. The
notion of a crackpot?
The Federal Council warned
against such unthinking dismis
sal of possibly good ideas. It
recommended investigation "to
assure that worthwhile concepts
are not overlooked.”
NEVER TOO OLD
MALDON, England fUPD—
Florence Eliza Frost, 91, said
her hobby is keeping young and
to prove it she entered a local
beauty contest.
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