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Show Miracle from the Sea almost three million gallons of fresh water daily. The plant, which cost $11 million, gives arid Aruba fresh water, not only much-needbut also 15,000 kilowatts of elec- trie current The plant was installed by a" team of New York engineers,. sea-wat- - Soon our processed, salt-frocean waters will have to be transported to the interior not only for ee -- . naturally arid regions but for areas where nianJumself4ias--destroyed- l . this vital resource. How do we do it? Obviously the price of transporting huge quantities of fresh water overland via railroad, truck, or barge is not feasible economically. There remains only one method, tested in practice for many years huge overland pipelines. Our petroleum and gas industries gained enormous experience in the installation of vast pipeline networks in our country, and I feel certain that in the. future nearly all of our desalted ocean water will flow through an immense crosscountry pipe network. Surrounded as we are by the Atlantic on the east; the Pacific on. the west, and the Gulf of Mexico on the south, I can foresee on our shores hundreds of - huge desalting plants which will pour billions of gallons . of fresh water into the country's pipelines day and night As enormous as such projects are, we cannot afford to be with out them. Consider that only- - five years ago industry alone consumed more than 100 billion gallons of water daily and that by 1975 we will use up to 300 billions. Irrigation in the U.S. also uses prodigious amounts of water now-m- ore than 135 billion gallons daily, mostly from rivers and lakes, with the need climbing constantly. With an abundance of water available through pipelines, we could supply more than 250 billion gallons daily in the latter part of this century. . ed In another case, a large American firm recently entered into a joint venture with Israel to construct a er desalting plant for large that parched country. The same firm also hopes to construct other huge plants in the U.S. A spokesman for the firm says that by 1965 they will have plants in operation with an output exceeding one billion gallons of fresh water a day! Progressive as these new plants are, they still are only a first step. rivers and lakes Our fresh-wat- er are becoming more andmore polluted by our factories and sewage . systems. reontinued) v Will even the new , "big-inc- h" pipelines satisfy the demands of all reclaimed desert lands in the U.S., plus our natural growth? By all means. Consider that water flows day and night through the entire network. Yet our water mands drop to a minimum at night 1 That gives us a chance to store J 'about 30 to 40 percent of the pipelines' capacity in huge reservoirs for' daytime use. Economic necessity makes it certain that such a vast desalting sys- tem use nuclear energy. 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