Word: watered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freshwater supply from the sea when the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission dedicated the world's largest single-unit desalting plant, a gleaming $3.3 million facility that can produce up to 2,620,000 gallons a day. The plant uses the so-called "flash" process, by which heated sea water is forced through a series of low-pressure chambers until it vaporizes into steam, which, in turn, condenses into pure water-much as steam condenses on the surface of a tea kettle. Fifteen years ago, desalination cost up to $5 per 1,000 gallons; with the flash method...
Desalting facilities are in operation in places like Kuwait, Curaçao and Israel. In the U.S., with technical assistance from the Interior Department's Office of Saline Water, Buckeye, Ariz., and Port Mansfield, Texas, both turned to desalination after their water became too brackish. With the threat of water shortages and pollution mounting, other cities can be expected to follow suit, especially as nuclear power becomes available to make large-scale desalination projects more economical...
...parts of Los Angeles will start getting converted sea water from a nuclear-powered 150 million-gallon-a-day plant. The U.S. and Mexico may put up a billion-gallon-a-day plant on the Gulf of California in the 1980s. By that time, the cost of desalting water could be cut to 100 per 1,000 gallons. Speaking over the noisy hum of Key West's desalting plant last week, Vice President Hubert Humphrey ventured a bold prediction. With such breakthroughs, he said, desalination will eventually yield benefits "as great as those bestowed by the development of electricity...
...Israelis were also becoming aggressive about details. They insisted that the cease-fire line at Suez went right down the middle of the canal, and were ready to drop their little patrol boats into the water to establish legal precedent for the later passage of bigger Israeli shipping. The Egyptians, who insist that the cease-fire line is on the east bank, captured one boat, warned that any others put into the canal would be blasted out of the water. At week's end the only penetration of the canal was by some dusty Israeli troopers trying to cool...
...tree, which right after the rainy season bears a succulent, plumlike fruit that the elephants love. Local Africans use the marula fruit to make a highly potent beer, but one elephant can eat enough fruit in a day to supply a whole village. Then the elephant goes to a water hole and drinks gallons of water. The result: its stomach immediately becomes a huge still in which the fruit ferments and forms alcohol. The elephant becomes hopelessly drunk, reeling around wildly and often standing up on its hind legs to reach more fruit. Each year the park's rangers...