Imagine, if you were alive, you were back in 1975.
We’ve just endured the travesty of Tricky Dick. The Viet Nam war is finally over. A peanut farmer spent two years (a first in political circles) running for president and won. We’ve survived the Oil Embargo, when gasoline was rationed and life was dramatically curtailed. Skylab (not the space station) is in the sky and the two major warriors in the world jointly launched a test to make the space station a reality. Oh, and America is finally upgrading its wastewater treatment systems- some going to secondary treatment (which means removing more than sticks, stones, bones, and other large objects that were the focus of primary treatment; the new approach includes going after the biological load), with a few others advancing to tertiary treatment (removal of specific pollutants that were not biological).
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