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Reactions: Drinks made with wastewater, and ACS’s support of science

April 24, 2025 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 11
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Drinks made with wastewater

I read with interest the March 24 Business Concentrate by Craig Bettenhausen about Sonoma Distilling making whiskey with (treated) wastewater. Epic Cleantec seems to have a great product!

Bettenhausen begins by pointing out that others are making beer with wastewater. I hate to complain about the whiskey news, but beer is typically 90–95% water, whereas whiskey might be only 50–60% water. Thus, it seems that making beer with wastewater is the more impressive achievement.

Andrew W. Maverick
Colorado Springs

 

ACS Comment on supporting science

The March 24, 2025, edition of C&EN had a report by Wayne E. Jones Jr., chair of the American Chemical Society Board of Directors (page 41). Dr. Jones, you are complicit in your silence: the elephant in the room is Donald J. Trump. The president has single-handedly destroyed one of the greatest science enterprises the world has ever seen. I am reminded of Germany circa the 1930s. Things are not OK.

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I have been a member of ACS for nearly 50 years. It seems that the organization is a clique whose mission is to give one another awards, ensure promotion and tenure, and receive grants. Thanks to the attack on science by this administration, the clique is about to crumble. Your colleagues will lose grant money, their students won’t get jobs or even graduate, the international postdocs you thought you would hire won’t get visas, and universities won’t get funding for overhead. In short, the research environment in the US is in shambles.

Jones’s report is spineless­—unwilling to take a risk, timid—and irrelevant. If ACS won’t stand up now, it should stand down.

Larry Lewis
Niskayuna, New York

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