The company relies on the same recycling methods that NASA uses to allow astronauts to drink water in space.

A brewery is making beer with recycled wastewater, purified using a process developed by NASA::The company relies on the same recycling methods that NASA uses to allow astronauts to drink water in space.

  • fknEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    The vast, vast, vast majority of Americans drink recycled wastewater today. The wastewater treatment plants dump their effluent into the river upstream from where the drinking water is sourced.

    By doing this, legally the drinking water source is the river and the idiots who don’t understand how water treatment get to drink their own purified urine without being told they are.

    The problem is that it would be significantly more efficient to skip the step of putting it into the river, since American (and most other developed nations) wastewater effluent is usually significantly cleaner than the river it is being discharged into.

    • HobbitFoot English
      3•1 year ago

      Yeah, but there are cases where wastewater goes directly to treatment plants.

      • fknEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Yes, but my point still stands. Most Americans are drinking recycled wastewater.