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  1. Water Chemistry: Fifty Years of Change and Progress

    Nonetheless, several key events support the argument that water chemistry as we know it today developed in the middle of the 20th century (late 1950s to early 1960s)—at the dawn of the “environmental era.”. If we take the midpoint of this period as 1960 or so, this means that the field in its modern incarnation is about 50 years old.