72-03: Water Pollution Abatement Brings New Ideas to the Cleaning Water

In 1965 a form of "handwriting on the wall" was presented to the American 
people that water pollution abatement was serious business. This, of course, was the Water Quality Act of 1965. Now, nearly seven years later, pollution abatement is one of the most important items in capital and operating budgets. Pollution problems originate. from many sources, and they may require people with various disciplines and backgrounds for the eventual solution. In some cases, the solution of one pollution problem might create another. For example, by using cooling towers rather than, once-through cooling, thermal pollution problems can be minimized.