Sentences with phrase «into potable water»

These use no chemicals they produce no sludge, and this equipment can recycle into potable water more pure than bottled water.

NASA works to develop more efficient systems to convert urine and cabin condensation into potable water for long missions to the moon or Mars

But a facility in Windhoek, Namibia, has processed domestic sewage into potable water for human consumption since the late 1960s «with no obvious adverse health effects among the population of several hundred thousand,» the authors state.

Not all of this water is cheap or easy to access and turn into potable water, outside experts warn, and pumping this water may have onshore impacts.

Not exact matches

More than two months after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico and devastated the island — knocking out its power grid and leaving millions without potable water — the official death toll has stayed surprisingly low at 62.

A major NSW regional council has introduced a supernatant recycling system into the filtration plant in the town water supply, helping to conserve potable water and providing substantial water savings over the long term.

It is tragic to see rivers such as Ankobra, Pra, Ofin and parts of the Volta, which used to provide clean potable water to huge communities now turned into a flow of mud and grime.

But the high cost of pumping water into and out of the ground has led to an increased interest in direct potable reuse, where recycled wastewater goes directly to a drinking water plant.

Recycled water, including treated sewage, can be used on gardens and in industrial processes instead of being flushed into rivers and oceans, alleviating pressure on potable water supplies.

It is a Whole Earth Catalogue of green systems, with a rainwater collection system; hydroponic garden to grown food for the community; biological wastewater treatment system to convert black water to greywater and potable water; earth tubes to funnel clean, natural air into the building through underground ducts; vertical axis wind turbines and solar panels for on - site green energy; and hydrogen fuel cells powered by methane, a byproduct of the wastewater treatment system.

Potable water must now be trucked into Guiyu and scientists have discovered that the city has the highest levels of cancer - causing dioxins in the world.

The direct system circulates potable water directly through the solar collector into the storage tank.

The monetary cost of turning our societal waste into potable usable water is astonishing.

Other harms are certainties, like the rendering of millions of gallons of potentially potable water undrinkable by toxifying the water and injecting it into the ground.

Nexus eWater, of Canberra, Australia, was a runner - up for the Pre-Revenue track for developing a solution which «harnesses the power of a home's wastewater stream by converting gray water into near - potable water, while recycling the water's energy for hot water heating.»

The winners of Imagine H2O's third annual competition are companies working on a variety of different problems, including turning wastewater from manufacturing into high - value chemical products, sequestering and removing heavy metals from industrial waters, the conversion of residential homes wastewater streams from gray water into near - potable water, and a process for companies to both reduce CO2 emissions while also manufacturing the chemicals they need for operations at the same time.

Karen P, if you are suggesting that by your daughter taking a shower that it pushed material that otherwise should have been directed out to the septic field (but couldn't be as a result of the broken pipe) back into the sump - pump pit thereby creating a fresh stink, then the same effect should have occurred whenever potable water was run from within the home: sinks, toilets — said items which you didn't indicate that you hadn't used in the two weeks you worked in the home, prior to moving in.