and by drinking it from a tap,
huge amounts of money plus pollution could be saved if we did all stop the nonsense of buying water in plastic or glass, as LoveFood commented in an article, Why bottled water is one of the biggest scams of the century, if you go to both links and read them, the next time you are in a restaurant and you see somebody buying bottled water you will be smug in the knowledge that gullible fools have just made a major contribution to pollute our planet, so it comes with a great sense of relief to find that there is one restaurant that is not connected to a sewerage system, and has
started serving its customers free drinking water recycled from its sinks and
toilets, the water
served at the Gust’eaux restaurant in Kuurne, Belgium, these days is the same as any
other potable water – it has no smell, no taste, no color – so it’s impossible
to tell that it’s source is actually the restaurant’s toilets. By using a
complex, five-step purification system, Gust’eaux is able to turn its sewage
into a water so pure that it has to be enriched with minerals before being
served to clients, photograph by Rawpixel/Pixabay,
the Belgian
restaurant is not connected to the city’s sewer system, so it really needed a
close-circuit solution to solve its sewage problem. Thanks to this allegedly
unique water recycling system, the toilet and sink water is initially “cleaned”
with plant fertilizer, then a part of it is mixed with collected rain water and
used for flushing toilets, while the rest is passed through a series of
purification processes that make it indistinguishable from tap water, “The water
that results is too pure to be drinkable, so we add minerals to make it
healthier,” a representative of Gust’eaux told Belgian news channel VRT News, the
restaurant offers its recycled toilet water to patrons in a variety of forms –
as free drinking water, ice cubes or in coffee. It’s reportedly also used for
brewing beer, according to Sudinfo, the same water purification system is used to
provide drinking water to isolated communities, but the experience is
unprecedented in Europe, way to go, recycled water, and please stop buying into this bottled water nonsense, just think of all of the plastic and transportation cost you will save the planet.
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