Pollution - the very word brings to mind in each of us a variety of abuses that man has perpetrated on his fellow man. lie has fouled the air, polluted streams and lakes and made vast dumping grounds out of once scenic areas. Water is impossible to destroy. Eventually, all water evaporates and later returns to the earth as rain or snow in a relatively pure state. Through this never-ending cycle there is just as much water now as there ever was, but the amount of water does not increase. Industry and population have expanded, thus increasing man's water needs. By withdrawing water from streams in greater quantities and by depositing too much untreated or improperly treated waste, we can upset The balance of nature's built-in renovation processes for conserving water quality. processes for conserving water quality. Wet deserts are the possible result in some of our streams and lakes, for even though they are still full of water—the water can become so polluted that it supports almost no life at all. America's future is dependent upon tile quality of water we use and re-use. Today, we use almost 400,000,000,000 (400 billion) gallons of water per day in the United States, and it is estimated that only 650 billion gallons of water per day is available for development. By the year 2000, we will need more than 1,000 billion gallons of water per day—which is over twice the amount being used at present. In order to meet these rising needs, it is necessary to preserve the quality of every gallon of preserve the quality of every gallon of water so that it can be safely used several times over. Water pollution control is the answer to the problem. To keep our water of high quality—methods of prevention, abatement and control of water pollution must be studied and understood. Citizens must be willing to support programs and objectives in water quality control and management, and everyone must take an interest in keeping our water pure. Prevention would have been much more desirable than the corrective action that must be taken - not only to hold our own but to roll back the vast pollution that has accumulated in the past due to mans greed and unconcern for the future generations. Pollution and Pollution Control is the popular topic for general discussion and it popular topic for general discussion and it is regrettable that the tremendous amount of publicity has resulted in a feeling of an approaching "doom's day".As has been widely publicized, we all know that during the last 40 years Lake Erie has been polluted to such an extent that the ecology has been permanently changed and the once prosperous commercial fishing industry is lost.