Word: brackishness
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...particularly to the U.S. Air Force, which is building a network of underground Atlas and Titan rocket-launching sites in the arid inland wastes of New Mexico, South Dakota and Oklahoma. In these areas available water is apt to be brackish, highly contaminated with minerals and salts that make it unpleasant and harmful for men and missiles alike. In addition to satisfying the need of parched humans, the bases must also slake the huge thirst of the rocket complex: thousands of gallons of water are needed to cool intricate machinery and to air-condition control rooms...
...answer lies in finding economical ways for converting salt and brackish water into fresh water. To rind the best methods the U.S. is building five demonstration plants across the nation, each using a different system of making fresh water. The first plant at Freeport will be followed by a plant designed by the Fluor Corp. at Point Loma in San Diego. It will produce 1,000,000 gallons a day, using atomic energy as the heat source for distillation. Its goal: water at a cost of 42? per 1,000 gallons...
Most U.S. cities now pay about 25?to 35? per 1,000 gallons for their water, and the Government's aim is to find a method that will convert brackish or salt water at the same price. Other plants in the program are scheduled to be built at Webster, S. Dak., Roswell, N. Mex. and on the East Coast...
...months, the eleven men lived in filth and boredom, their bodies nourished only by a meager ration of moldy bread that the Egyptians allowed aboard and the brackish water left in their original supply. Their spirits shriveled in a never-ending monotony of card playing ("The one deck we had got shredded"), and they were continually insulted, often spat upon, by the Egyptian guards...
Amphibious Oil. The oilmen have approached the sea by easy stages, meeting it first in the Mississippi delta, where land and sea are interlaced. Winding bayous snake through the land, connecting brackish lakes only a few feet deep. What looks like land is often sea with tall grass growing up through...