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Under traditional purification methods, salt or brackish water is either heated to a vapor and then condensed, leaving foreign matter behind, or else it is frozen into ice, thereby separating out the brine, and then remelted to obtain a pure product. The Ionics system, developed by Executive Vice President Walter...
Tapped Off. To help solve its water problem, the Air Force has signed up Ionics, Inc., a twelve-year-old Cambridge, Mass, company staffed largely by professorial veterans of M.I.T. and Harvard. Less than two years ago, Ionics unveiled the nation's first municipal water-desalting plant at Coalinga...
Ionics' specialty is purifying brackish water, which has a maximum of only 10,000 parts of dissolved contaminants per million parts of water. The Ionics system is much more costly in converting sea water, where the contamination rate is 35,000 parts per million.
Enough Water? Ionics' specialization in brackish water makes its purification system particularly suitable for the missile bases. From local deep wells, highly mineralized water will soon be pumped into a dozen desalting units with a daily capacity of 500,000 gallons, enough to supply a town of 5,000...
For planters in Britain's steamy Latin American colony of British Guiana, one of life's great irritations has long been the weeds and grass that flourish in Guiana's irrigation and drainage ditches. Until last year, to keep the weeds from choking off the water flow...