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Show I .T- - Tuesday, Aprjl 20, 1954 THE DRAGERTON TRIBUNE - , - , . w,.iy Vmr Dodos1 The following is one of a series of articles written by members of the Utah State Medical Association and published in cooperation with your local newspaper. 7 hese . articles are scheduled to appear every other week throughout the year in an effort to better acquaint you with problems of health , and designed to improve the g of the people of Utah. well-bein- on As in many other situations an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure Utah is to be congratulated in that it has in the pollumaking a definite tion program before the situation has become so acute as to leave no recourse and before extensive damage has been done. Water pollution includes any activity which adds to the turbidity, color, odor, taste, hardness and bacterial content of natural waters. Pollution is conditioned by many factors, both natural and those incident upon the activities of mankind. Sr me of these factors are uncontrollable, some partially controllable. and some can be com B A as source of Natural soyrces of pollution such as torrential rains, mountainous dust stormy are of course beyond terrain, chemicals in the soil and complete human control. Another natural source of increased turbidity, soil erosion, can be abated or lessened by proper farming practices, forestration, and flood control through adequate damming of streams and rivers. Pollution as a result of human activities is as a rule much more serious in its effects than is natural pollution. 'Poor agricultural practices and deforestation of land producing erosion and high initial turbidities to which are added untreated human sewage and Water pollution in mans history has marched along with civilization. The association has been so passively accepted that generally no attempts during the development of a community are made at prevention, much as though the situation were inevitable. Omy when the local situation becomes intolerable to the majority of the people is an effort made to remedy the personally injurious pollution and then often frantically' at great expense and without any thougnt as to the general deleterious aspects of water pollution. If one stops to consider that the surface and underground waters of the more populous eastern portions of his country were, only a short time ago, the equal of waters in the western states; if one is at all aware of the already significant pollution of natural waters that is now occurring in Utah; then one can forsee the ultimate conditions of water pollution which will prevail in this state unless adequate laws are enforced. anti-wat- , vvatei Wafer Pollution anti-polluti- eliminated pletely water pollution. er raw industrial wastes create water pollution conditions which far surpass the powers of natural purification processes and make artificial water purification for culinary or any other purposes extremely difficult and expensive. Human, animal, and plant life are to a variable degree adversely affected by the water pollution. We are all aware that polluted water has been throughout mans history the source of serious epidemics of disease often with high mortality rates. That considerable additional illness of less dramatic severity but economically of great importance, such as the acute digestive tract disturbances which are constantly with us are probably the result of polluted water is not so generally realized. The expense to communities of the water purification processes necessary to provide satisfactory culinary waters from grossly, polluted water sources is a cause of concern to municipal governing bodies. A community having made what would appear to be adequate provisions for water purification must, not withstanding these provisions, be constantly fearful of excessive pollution of raw waters in any region where no regulation of the discharge of wastes into natural waters is attempted. It would appear logical that any state-wid- e program for the prevention of water pollution such as has occurred in other areas of this country should have the support of all citizens interested in their own and the states welfare. That the initiation of and support for such a program should await the development of extreme and damaging water pollution conditions would be short sighted indeed. Fisheries Survey For Deer Hunters t Deer hunters can look forward prime season during the fall hunts this year. This prediction iS forecast by game division spokesmen following the annual spring range and trend count surveys. Chief reason for such a forecast is based upon the increased number of animals counted in nearly all of the states sixty-tw- o deer units. With poor counting hunting conditions expected because of the mild winter and lack of snow cover, the animals still were seen in greater numbers than a year to, another ago. Critical range-her- d conditions exist in several areas, most of them in the south portions of the state. Winter die-offrom malnutrition have been noted in at least two areas. These are in the Field work is again getting under way m the inventory and fisheries survey work project being conducted by the Utah Department of Fish and Game. This vwork was started a year ago March 1, as a three year project under federal aid approval as one of the first so approved. Seventy-fiv- e per cent of the moneys expended are reimbursable to the department from Dingle- - herds to the carrying capacity of the ranges where a serious lack of winter forage continues to threaten losses of the herds involved. It presently appears that de- partment recommendations will be made to the Board of Big Game Control for early, late, two deer and other type special hunts for that bodys consideration in setCove Mountain and Antimony secting the all deer seasons in probtions. lem areas. The board is authority for setSpecial harvest measures will be needed to bring several of the ting all big game hunts in Utah. Johnson funds. The funds' are. rived from a federal tax on sports v ' ' fishing equipment ; ; 7 j Scope of the work will include . , an evaluation of fish habitat, carrying capacity and other importfish- -' ant factors concerning the ' ery values in the states streams and still waters. ,, . The drainages of the Bear, Price and Sevier rivers were cov-.--. ered during the first year, of work, under the survey. Compilation of the data thus gathered has been made during the winter or clos- - ' ed months. Director J. Perry Egan com- -' mented that, We expect the in--' formation gathered by our pres-- : ent fisheries inventory to be a vital factor in forecasting a better stocking program for many of the states waters. fs , PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania, during: the six saw the years between 1946-555 new or of opening development and surface bituminous coal deep mines with a rated capacity of 500 tons or more daily. 2, FOR Y0U NK FACTS 't A sound dollar is one upon which our own nation and others can rely -- to be worth about as much next year, or decades from now, as today. Those who have known economic distress in depression and deflation and those who have seen the value of savings, insurance and income eroded away by inflation understand the damage an unsound dollar can cause. 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