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Strategies & Market Trends : Water! Water! Everywhere and Not a Drop To Drink! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: big guy who wrote (106)6/6/1999 9:30:00 PM
From: Arthur Radley  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 336
 
Big Guy,
I will check it out. Sounds very interesting. San Diego seems to be a "hot-bed" for biotech companies.

Did you by chance see "60 Minutes" tonight? They had a tragic story on about trying to get safe drinking water for the people in Bangledesh(sp) with the end results being worse. It seems that all the wells they dug(to keep the population from drinking the polluted surface water)produced water with arsenic levels that was giving them cancer. Very sad to see some of the victims. As the reporter stated.."The road to hell is often paved with good intentions"



To: big guy who wrote (106)6/6/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: Wade  Respond to of 336
 
Big Buy,

That super absorbent material is similar to that used in baby diapers. It can absorb 100 - 1000 times of its weight of water to reduce evaporation and permeation. It should help growth of crops at those dry areas. The technology is widely available, but my caution is their competitions. I am not sure if they can get good profit margin at this point. Take care.

Sincerely,
Wade