Show thirsty industries face shortage of pure water philadelphia add current shortages A growing scarcity of cloan water tor for americas increasingly thirsty industries the reason for this seeming paradox comes from richard H de motti mott vice president of industries inc who says that the shortage Is the result of a 20 year log lag in production of high speed water pumping and purification facilities an estimated three billion dollars must be spent by government and industry for new equipment to avert a drouth of unpolluted water he declares on many important r rivers ivers and streams water becomes polluted relatively high upstream and is used and reused so frequently that present limited purification facilities cannot cope with tho tha task demott 8 says ays U S industry drinks approximately 21 billion gallons of this basic bade element a day equivalent to twice the flow ol of the hudson river paper manufacturers consume the greatest volume of water demott explains accounting for or three billion gallons a day other large users include oil refineries chemical plants and food processors processor continuing demands tor for larger pumps and other equipment that will increase pump capacity indicate that industry Is beriou seriously sly concerned about additional water supplies for the immediate future demott damott says sayi |