§ 39. Sir D. Rentonasked the Minister of Technology whether he is aware of the importance of finding an economic and practical method of removing salt from sea-water on a large scale so as to make it drinkable; what research is taking place for this purpose; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. CousinsYes. Various lines of research are in progress, in Government laboratories, in industry and in universities. They are mainly concerned with improvement of flash distillation techniques.
I am considering plans for increasing the scale of effort on desalination research and hope to make a statement fairly soon.