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industries; chemicals and allied products; paper and allied products; 

 petroleum and coal products; and food and kindred products. 



Ranked 1n order of brackish water use (which may Include use of 

 estuarlne water), chemicals and allied products were overwhelmingly 

 the highest water user, nearly equalling the totals of the other 

 four highest users, which were the following: petroleum and coal 

 products; primary metal industries; paper and allied products and 

 food and kindred products. The two industries that exhibited signi- 

 ficant increases 1n brackish water use between 1954 and 1964 were 

 chemicals and allied products, and primary metals. 



