(GP/GT) for Additional Water Supply in the Lower Rio Grande

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The attached Figure shows graphically the many industrial and commercial products that are possible
from the salts contained in various types of brines found within the U.S.A.
It might be mentioned in passing that, with the availability of inexpensive electrical power from the
energy potentials in these GP/GT brines, it should be possible to develop an Electrolytic Industry that can
then extract chlorine from the various Chlorides. Chlorine is one of the most important chemicals in any
modern society and, along with Sulfuric Acid, betokens the economic importance of any area that
possesses such resources, from which an entire chemical-industry foundation may arise leading to divers
other chemicals of commerce and industry. The LRGV region has long been eyed by several chemical
companies over the years and their reluctance has traditionally been based on the fact that the availability
of good water, inexpensive electricity and abundant chemical raw materials has been quite limited.
The GP/GT brine resource, at full development, can go a long way towards curing these constraints and
spawning, in the process, a befty contribution towards the economic diversification of the LRGV region,
especially now that it finds itself at the nexus of a tripartite Trade Bloc that is destined, with the advent
of NAFf A, to be the new North American front line, so to speak.
We reproduce in Appendix D of this Report, a composite representation of all the economically
recoverable values from the many resource components that go to make up the total GP/GT Resource.
That particular effort is reported in a comprehensive paper presented at the same GP/GT Conference
reported above, at Austin, Texas in February, 1991.