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All of these industries have high growth potential and may be ex- 

 pected to intensify their activities in the future. 



Other high water use industries of importance to individual estuarine 

 areas are: 



(1) Textiles: Massachusetts-Rhode Island Coast, 



New York-Northeast Mew Jersey Coast, North Carolina Coast, 

 and Mississippi-Alabama-West Florida Coast. 



(2) Primary metals: Connecticut Coast, Maryland-Virginia 

 Coast and the Texas North and South Gulf Coasts. 



(3) Food and kindred products: Philadelphia-New Jersey- 

 Delaware Coast, North Carolina Coast, Southern Florida 

 Gulf Coast, Central Florida Gulf Coast, Louisiana Coast, 

 the California Coasts and the Oregon and Washington 

 Coasts. 



Thermal Wastes 



Although heated effluents may come from a variety of sources, 

 electric power generation is estimated to produce 31 per cent of 

 the total heat discharged to the Nation's waters. Demand and 

 production of electric power in this country has doubled every 

 ten years during this century, with most of the increase coming 

 through use of thermal -generating methods. Power requirements 

 of electrical systems in 1930 will be thrse times what they were 

 in 1963, 



