Texas town recycling urine due to drought!

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August 7, 2011 / ANI, London / DC.

A town in Texas that is facing a massive drought is set to recycle urine into drinking water.

“When you talk about toilet-to-(water) tank it makes a lot of people nervous and grossed out,” Discovery News quoted Terri Telchik, who works in the city manager’s office in Big Spring, Texas, as saying.

Water for the town’s 27,000 residents comes through the Colorado River Municipal Water District, which has broken ground on a plant to capture treated wastewater for recycling.

“We’re taking treated effluent (wastewater), normally discharged into a creek, and blending it with (traditionally supplied potable) water,” district manager John Grant said.

In essence, the system speeds up what would naturally occur with the flow of discharged water through wetlands, with more pristine results, Grant added.

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http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/world/europe/texas-town-recycling-urine-due-drought-054

Atlantis crew to test textbook-sized kit that converts urine into drinking water!

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• July 11, 2011 
• ANI 
• Washington / DC.

Atlantis crew to test textbook-sized kit that converts urine into drinking water via Commons.

NASA's last space shuttle mission this Friday will carry a textbook-sized kit that can convert urine into potable water.

Soldiers already use similar technology to filter out parasites, bacteria, viruses and other contaminants from dirty fluids, including urine, but NASA's adapted baggie system has yet to prove itself in space, reports Wired News.

"This could be a first step toward recapturing the humidity from our sweat, from our breath, even from our urine, and recycling it and making it drinkable," said NASA project scientist and experiment leader Howard Levine, who made a reference to water-recycling 'stillsuits' used on a desert world in the science fiction series Dune.

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