Screening And Monitoring: Eye On Effluent

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

196

Date Released

1977

Length of issue (in feet)

523

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Screening And Monitoring: Clear Plug
2. 2Screening And Monitoring: Pin Prick Pesticide
3. 3Screening And Monitoring: Eye On Effluent
4. 4Screening And Monitoring: Baby Heartbeats

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: If water flowing from certain factories is polluted with toxic chemicals, the result can be lethal to human life. A new monitoring system, using bubbles of mercury, can now provide a constant check on effluent, scanning every drop of water leaving the factory and detecting even the smallest amounts of dangerous impurities.

Keywords

Science and technology; Industry and manufacture; Pollution; Inventions and discoveries

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive]   Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/196

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Cutter

Maurice Tarling

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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