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.......... ....<... -00 --- - - - 4 .. ........ . ai m st We'invited a and they helped c With the aid of a few thousand pounds nisms, we're helping to solve the water pollutic Rochester. Maybe the solution can help others. What we did was to combine two proce that gives us one of the most efficient water tems private industry has ever developed. One process is called "activated sludge by man to accelerate nature' s microorganisi What this means is that for the majority of we produce, there is an organism waiting somewi happily assimilate it. And thrive on it. The breakthrough came when Kodak sc: a way to combine the activated sludge process w filter process and optimized the combination. We tested our system in a pilot plant Xeo X..3 .. .... ... :.N:4 - x% few friends for dir1 lean up the Genes of microorga- (At Kodak, we were working on environmer n problem in long before it made headlines.) And the pil< so well, we built a ten-million-dollar plan1 ases in a way 36-million gallons of water a day. purifying sys- Governor Rockefeller called th.is "1 tary project undertaken by private indusi a," developed New York State's pure-water program." n adsorption. Why did we do it? Partly because wi stes man can rpake a profit-and clean water is vital to ou lere that will furthering our own needs, we have helped And our business depends on society. entists found ' We hope our efforts to cope with wa ith a trickling inspire others to do the same. And, we'd b our water-purifying information with them. for five years. water. So we all have to work together. More thal NA.4 . . R... N* nerVer tl improvement it project worked that can purify he biggest volun ry in support of 're in business to business. But in further society's. ter pollution will e happy to share We all need clean Kodak 1 a business.