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THE CITIES DOWNSTREAM
Cort, David | January 27, 1964 issue

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The article presents information on water requirements in the U.S. The U.S. water demands have exploded and are still exploding. United States demands have risen in this century from 40 billion to 320 billion gallons per day and may be headed for 600 billion gallons. When anybody moves from the country to the city, his personal demand goes up from five gallons to 100 or more gallons a day. A store's air conditioning uses 2 million gallons a day. The manufacture of a ton of steel demands 65,000 gallons, of viscose rayon 200,000 gallons, of bromine 5 million gallons. This last alone equals the daily personal water use of a city of 50,000.

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WATER-supply; PUBLIC utilities; WATER use; MANUFACTURES; WATER; UNITED States
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