Icebound [antikvár]

From The New York Times: [1] 'M POLAR ICE PUREST WATER IN THE WORLD MOSCOW, Feb. 10 - According to Russian scientists, the water constituting the Arctic icecap has a far lower bacteria count than any water we now drink or with which we irrigate crops, a discovery that might make this vast frozen reservoir a valuable resource of the future. Because tapping the polar icecap might be cheaper than any current or foreseeable desalinization process, some Russian researchers speculate that millions of acres of farmland might be irrigated with melted icebergs in the next decade. [2] SCIENTISTS BELIEVE ICEBERGS COULD PROVIDE FRESH WATER BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 5 - Speaking before the annual convention of the American Society of Environmental Engineers, Dr. Harold Carpenter said today that chronic shortages of water in California, Europe, and other regions could be alleviated by a controlled melting of icebergs towed south from the Arctic Circle. Dr. Carpenter's wife and research partner, Dr. Rita Carpenter, said the concerned nations should consider poothig the IV', *«