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Peter Scheer investigated how nutrients can be reused in space and realized that we can also save a lot of drinking water on Earth.
If you think about it, it’s quite strange: we flush litres of drinking water down the toilet every day. Peter Scheer thought the same thing. He researched for the European Space Agency how people in space can reuse nutrients. We can do this better on Earth, he thought.
At the Zwarte Cross festival, he tests his invention: a “cleaning train” that collects shower water and then uses it to flush toilets. What does that mean? “This will enable us to save 150,000 litres of drinking water over a weekend,” Scheer tells Climate Issue magazine.
Could the invention also be used elsewhere to combat the shortage of drinking water? And why would you try this at a festival?
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