Show New Processes Developed To Desalt Sea Water Two new processes that make vast quantities of sea water suitable suit able for agricultural and Industrial use hold promise for reaching far benefits for the nations nation's farms One method under consideration by the Freeport Sulphur Co desalts de salts sea water by a kind of chemical chem ical leal separation called ion exchange The other makes sea water fit tit for mining sulphur a mineral essential essential essen essen- to the manufacture of fertilizers fertilizers fertil fertil- insecticides steel rubber and hundreds of other items used on the farm farm The desalting process promises to open up arid and lands to settlement and cultivation It comes at a time when fresh water supplies are limited limited lim in many areas While still stUl a relatively rel reI high cost operation it offers otters a short term short term solution to farmers seeking relief In periods of drought The seawater water process to extract sulphur is being used in Louisiana in an area 35 miles from the near near- bat st source of fresh water It consists conS con silts in the controlled heating of ot the water and in removing most of the oxygen which causes corrosion Special Special cial controls prevent the breakdown break down of chemical elements that form scale In the desalting process sea seawater seawater seawater water is passed palled through a series of ot electrically charged membranes or filters Two streams emerge one nearly pure water the other brine |