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Show U. S. FUNDS ASKED TO MAKE SALT WATER FIT TO DRINK . i WASHINGTON, Oct 12 MV-President Truman has asked congress for $500,000 to study means of utilising salt water for irrigation and municipal purposes. The request was made in letter accompanying a budget bureau report. The president said the money would be used by the interior in-terior department in cooperation with other federal agencies, agen-cies, private firms and universities. Be said the lack of water in the west emphasised the importance of initiating such a program designed to find A practicable way of making salt water fresh. . |