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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1974.

NEW DESALTING PLANTS BEING PLANNED

PRELIMINARY PLANNING FOR FURTHER DESALTING PLANTS IN HONG KONG IS ALREADY IN HAND, ACCORDING TO THE COVERNMENT WATER ENGINEER CDESALTING), M. HERDERT WOODTHONPE.

HOWEVER, IN VIEU OF THE COST INVOLVED, HE SAID THE FINAL DECISION TO GO AHEAD WOUDLD BE DEFERRED FOR AS LONG AS POSSICLE.

DISCLOSING THIS AT A LUNCHEON MEETING OF THE HONG KONG ISLAND ROTARY CLUB, 13. WOODTHORPE NOTED THAT IN ADDITION TO THE EXISTING DESALTING PLANT UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT LÓK ON PAI IN CASTLE PEAK, NEW ONES VOULD ALMOST CERTAINLY DE NEEDED IN THE FUTURE.

+A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF RESEARCH INTO DESALTING,+ KE PO INTED OUT, +HAS DEEN IN PROGRESS TUROUCHOUT THE CORLD FOR A NUNDER OF YEARS, AND IT IS JUST POSSIBLE THAT BY THE TIME WE BUILD A SECOND PLANT A KEU TECHNOLOGY GIVING SOMEWHAT REDUCED COSTS HAY HAVE PROVED VIABLE.+

THE COVERNMENT WATER ENGINEER SPOKE DRIEFLY ON THE HISTORY OF DESALTING.

REFERRING TO THE PRESENT PLANT, HE SAID THE FIRST OF ITS SIX SEPARATE SELF-CONTAINED UNITS WILL COME INTO CPERATION EARLY IN THE NEW YEAR WHILE THE SUCCESSIVE UNITS WILL COME INTO SERVICE AT APPROX INATELY THREE-MONTHLY INTERVALS THEREAFTER UNTIL MID-1976.

+ON COMPLETION. THE OUTPUT VILL DE 40 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY, AND IT WILL, DY A FAIRLY CONSIDERADLE HARGIN, DE THE DIGGEST PLANT OF ITS TYPE IN THE WORLD. IZ SAID.

WITH REGARD TO ITS EFFECT ON THE ENVIDONENT, HE STRESSED THAT CONSIDERADLE CARE HAD BEEN TAKEN: FIRSTLY, TO NINKISE THE VISUAL PACT OF THE PLANT BY COOD DESIGN ADD BY A CAREFUL CHOICE OF COLOUR SCHEME FOR THE PLANT HALL SECONDLY, TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS THE MINIMUM OF ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION FROM THE CHIMNEYS AND, LASTLY, TO AVOID HARIKE POLLUTION FROM THE DISCHARCE OF WARM DRINE.

IN ORDER TO PREVENT ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION, IR. WOODTHORPE SAID FUEL WITH A LOU SULPHUR CONTENT WOULD DE USED TO LOUER THE QUANTITY OF SULPHUR DIOXIDE ENITYED.

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