Dwight Eisenhower’s “Proposal for Our Time”

‘An idea whose time has come’ is how Admiral Strauss describes the Eisenhower plan for huge atomic desalting plants to give the Near East what it needs most—water

For in the wilderness shall water break forth and streams in the desert. Isaiah 43:20 Although a shortage of sweet water has begun to threaten some areas of our country, we have been so blessed with natural resources that an abun- dance of water for human consump- tion, agriculture and industry has al- ways been taken for granted—like the air we breathe. Pollution, it is true, has now begun to contaminate both our air and water, but we have a few years of grace to correct abuses which, unchecked, could make life on our portion of the planet intoler- able. –

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Lewis L. Strauss

‘An idea whose time has come’ is how Admiral Strauss describes the Eisenhower plan for huge atomic desalting plants to give the Near East what it needs most—water

For in the wilderness shall water break forth and streams in the desert. Isaiah 43:20 Although a shortage of sweet water has begun to threaten some areas of our country, we have been so blessed with natural resources that an abun- dance of water for human consump- tion, agriculture and industry has al- ways been taken for granted—like the air we breathe. Pollution, it is true, has now begun to contaminate both our air and water, but we have a few years of grace to correct abuses which, unchecked, could make life on our portion of the planet intoler- able. –