Water problems in the future will become more intense and more complex. Our increasing population will tremendously increase urb

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问题     Water problems in the future will become more intense and more complex. Our increasing population will tremendously increase urban wastes, primarily sewage. On the other hand, increasing demands for water will decrease substantially the amount of water available for diluting wastes. Rapidly expanding industries which involve more and more complex chemical processes will produce large volumes of liquid wastes, and many of these will contain chemicals which are poisonous. To feed our rapidly expanding population, agriculture will have to be intensified. This will involve ever-increasing quantities of agriculture chemicals. From this, it is apparent that drastic steps must be taken immediately to develop corrective measures for the pollution problem.
    There are two ways by which this pollution problem can be lessened. The first relates to the treatment of wastes to decrease their pollution hazard. This involves the processing of solid wastes prior to disposal and the treatment of liquid wastes, or effluents, to permit the reuse of the water or best reduce pollution upon final disposal.
    A second approach is to develop an economic use for all or a part of the wastes. Farm manure is spread in fields as a nutrient or organic supplement. Effluents from sewage disposal plants are used in some areas both for irrigation and for the nutrients contained. Effluents from other processing plants may also be used as a supplemental source of water. Many industries, such as meat and poultry processing plants, are currently converting former waste production into marketable byproducts. Other industries have potential economic uses for their waste products.
The reader can conclude that______.

选项 A、countries of the world will work together on pollution problems
B、byproducts from wastes lead to a more prosperous marketplace
C、science is making great progress on increasing water supplies
D、some industries are now making economic use of wastes

答案D

解析 文章最后一段讲了第二种措施,即to develop an economic use of the wastes。倒数第二句“Many industries…are currently converting former waste production into marketable byproducts”说明一些行业已经在利用废物获得经济利益。所以选D。
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