We drink treated waste water all the time. That's how the water cycling process work. This is just another method so don't make it a huge icky deal, YOU ALREADY DRINK WASTE WATER!
Ik people are like ewww but the water from the sink in the bathroom and kitchen is treated water that has been purified and treated from the shit water. The water you bath with is recycled water from shit water. The water you drink at your school water fountain is shit water. Thats why its next to the bathrooms..smh
Jparodyy Do you honestly believe that is crystal clear water a spring in the Alps? Bottled water is filled from faucets most likely not filtered because it takes too much time... and time is money.
It has, perhaps not recently, but matter can't be created nor destroyed. So who knows where the elements that compose that mountain water have been over the course of thousands and even millions of years.
I mean, technically it has, since you drank water. Peed it out, it was eventually evaporated and slowly made its way back to that same spring, where somebody else drank it. Water doesn't disappear forever
When you realize that water is H2O and is just molecules. And that contaminated water is just H2O with many or a few unwanted molecules, drinking "poop water" isn't so horrific after all. All they do is take out the unwanted molecules and leave nothing but water molecules again.
I know she is a bit foolish , unless there is a new super deadly hybrid disease that only she knows about, half bacterium ,half virus which can't be stopped !!
Biggest problem is that the water is distilled, that means it lacks essential minerals and is unfit as drinking water. Using distilled water as drinking water is lethal -- not immediately, but pretty soon.
did they not watch the video? you can see that the water comes from evaporation and that a worker is not involved in evaporation. sometimes i wonder about Anna and Cenk.
The thing is from what I understand on the video, the water from the waste is evaporated. If it has been heated to evaporation, it sterilizes it and doesn't contain any sort of waste. It shold be on par or even better quality then average tap water in america/
I know that we've always been drinking sewage water. I think the difference with this is that it's a small compact machine and not an entire factory/plant.
Wow, you can filter water. Amazing. It does make you wonder about homeopathic medicine though. I mean, if water has memory, has it just selectively forgotten all the shit?
WhiskeyWhiskers You misunderstood his comment. He was essentially saying that if homeopathic medicine was true that the tiny amount of shit in it must have a massive effect but it doesn't because homeopathic medicine is bullshit.
The technology has been around forever, It's just super expensive to turn Sewage into drinking grade water compared to other sources. And yes, if this takes off I would drink it.
Actually not really, the filter method to fully purify water didn't exist until the mid 2000's, so it's been around for about a decade (of course, lower quality filters existed before then, but drinking poop wasn't safe until then): those filters were relatively expensive. The breakthrough here is the cost reduction, so it's not just that we can sufficiently clean it (we had that capability before) - it's that we can clean it cheap-ish: and that's a big leap :)
This is the same guy who brought us Windows Vista, Windows ME, Internet Explorer, and The Zune. Is it a good idea to trust him with someone’s drinking water?
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that tap water is basically recycled water. So we already do it. The innovative part ( which they didn't really talk about ) , is that this produces electricity in the process, which makes it ideal in 3rd world countries which will benefit from both. What's not clear to me is : - how does it produce electricity , and is the process pollution free ? - what happens to the remainder of the waste ?
MrJarth if bill were to pay ordinary tax 30% instead of capital gain tax 15%, we would have 4 billion dollars. Enough to fund NIH for three months. However, the money would more likely go to fund more wars in the middle East
this type of technology has been in use for many years. the particular system shown here is highly inefficient. boiling the water to steam and then condensing it back to water is extremely costly. there are many better ways of just separating out the water from the waste.
Sewage water to drinking water? No! Why? Too mant pharmaceutical and medical waste may still make it through the filtering/cleaning process. Atmospheric water generation? Yes! Desalinization? Yes! Deep ground aquifers? Yes! Rain water filtration? Yes!
Not a single pharmaceutical or medical product will get through this process, not one. The water produced via this method is cleaner than any water you have had in your life. That's the point of using poop to test it, but it applies equally to contaminated rivers, or bog water, or a slurry of drugs - the only thing that survives is H2O. The only form of contamination that could survive this process is extremely high levels of radiation: so as long as you aren't trying to drink the cooling pond of your local nuclear reactor, it's the cleanest water on the planet.
We have the same machines in the developed world but we call them water treatment plants or dam's. It doesn't matter where you live or how expensive your water is we are all drinking poop water.
If you live in a city along the Mississippi River, you're already drinking water that was once sewage, unless you live at the headwaters. By the time the water reaches New Orleans, it's gone through something like 270 wastewater treatment plants. Many cities use their wastewater effluent for watering grass in parks or for cooling in powerplants, and we're moving towards just sending it back to the drinking water treatment plant. I'll be graduating this spring with a Water Quality Science degree, and last summer I interned at a city's water and wastewater treatment plants. The water leaving the wastewater plant has to meet standards so it isn't polluting the environment, which often means it is cleaner than the streams and lakes it enters, and safer to drink as well.
Wasn't it in California where a huge reservoir was emptied when one guy pissed into it? It cost like hundreds of thousands of dollars but the guy who was in charge of the operation argued that it had to be done because of the "yuck-factor".
I had this cool substitute teacher in second grade who said: Because of the water cycle you've all drunk the piss of every Icelandic settler. Probably true but hilarious to 8 year olds
Isn't this already a common practice? We visited a water treatment plant when I was in middle school and what was described there is exactly what was described in the video
As long as there extracting the vapor by heating the sewage there's no need for scepticism, even in tundra when water gets evaporated from animal waste at the lowest temperatures possible it's still safe to drink
*sigh* we already drink treated water. the water is tested often, and if there is something wrong with the water you will be advised not to drink it until it's clean again. it's not that hard.
Did you do any research before reporting this? The water extraction process is not just running shit through a filter and hoping its's clean. The waste (be it feces, Corn husks, leftovers from meat production, etc) is boiled and liquid is collected. It's a very simple distillation process, the end user would have to work VERY hard to screw it up.
This is not human waste "treated" or "converted" into water. This is just water separated from the waste. The sludge of human waste is boiled and out of it rises water vapor that is then liquefied.
There are people drinking treating sewage water in municipalities all over the globe this very minute. What's different here is it looks to be a more compact system and something they could deploy in undeveloped areas without a lot of infrastructure with added electricity benefits. Astronauts also recycle waste water for consumption.
These processors do work. You can put the suction into raw sewage and filter the water out of it. This tech (reverse osmosis) is over 10yrs old. Ships use it to desalinate and purify their water at sea. Doesn't matter if Ana has no interest in drinking processed water, if she insists on living in LA, she will either pay inflated rates for imported water, or drink processed water.
its distilled water. no problem. it has been cleaned when it was in the form of steam. everyone knows the USA has no regulations on drinking water, poor people drink crap and wells get destroyed by fracking.
Scepticism is good and all but how can anyone mess up vaporation of H2O? It literally is like boiling water, it would be an additional effort to reintroduce waste to the water once the sludge is boiling.
Sounds fine until people realize that after filtering waste the final product winds up having more than just trace amounts of Dihydrogen monoxide that your family could wind up drinking! No matter how hard scientists try, removing all dihrydorgen monoxide from drinking water is near impossible, unless they do such a good job nothing is left
For all of you in the comment section stating that this technology has been around forever. People, there is a difference between a system that takes pluvial water or river water, stores in in tanks and through decantation and filtering techniques make water clean and drinkable and a machine that can take waste as input and create water, electricity and patogen-free ash. In many third world countries there are not enough water resources, or money, to create water treatment facilities that can benefit everyone. There are remote locations where piping can not reach and there are a lot of places where waste makes the river water undrinkable. So this system, will surely benefit a lot of communities around the globe.
this already exists here in america for 50+ years its called Water Treatment Plants, Where do people think our sewage goes now - water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-wastewater.html
Huh? I thought this was already being done for years, atleast in the Netherlands and many other European countries. There is a water recycling center (or whatever it's called) right outside my city that purifies sewage water to make it drinkable. You would think that the country that keeps yelling it's #1 would have this already... Wait...
Sounds like the water is all distilled. That is as pure as it can get. Anyone that has a house with a septic system and a well uses recycled water. That water goes into the septic tank the solids seperate with gravity the water goes through the tubes into the leech field and drains into the ground. it goes through the ground and is filtered through the rock dirt sand and whatever else is down there and ends up mixed in with the well water. This is why you dont put a well next to the outhouse you need that distance to filter it. But in this case its all distilled and that water should technically be as pure as it gets. the same process could turn salt water into drinking water.
I think its interesting, i would try it and if you're still worried about the water straight out of the machine just go home and boil it to 195 degrees, put it in a clean bottle and put it in your fridge. You'll be fine.
Most of us are already drinking, at least partially, recycled water. The noteworthy thing here is the energy positive recycling technology. Just make sure it's a public utility,
I don't see how corporations would screw this up. Either the technology works or it doesn't. Do you avoid large hospitals because you're afraid they're going to cut corners on medical care for a profit?
Not that special. Just a more efficient version of the current process used in the US of waste water and water treatment plants to provide clean water for their citizens.
OF COURSE! It is such a waste to flush our toilets and the water that we do purify is usually cleaner than water from any of our polluted rivers or lakes
Ana: "I live in California where we deal with droughts because of climate change." No, we deal with droughts because we live in a Mediterranean climate which means that drastic swings in the annual rainfall away from the normal are common. This last drought was the driest drought we have had since our records started being kept, but that does not indicate climate change. Periods of higher than normal rainfall and periods of lower than normal rainfall are traits of the climate that we live in. The normal rainfall amount is actually expected to increase in California by a few inches over the next century. Don't just say shit that you know nothing about. If the professionals really thought that the drought was going to be a huge problem, than they would have instigated more water saving measures and probably mandatory rationing amongst large corporations, farms, and even households; but they haven't because they know that the rain will return. Matter of fact, we are experiencing an El Niño right now, meaning the ocean temperatures off of our coast are warmer than usual, which means that the dew point temperatures over the ocean and along the coast are higher than they normally would be, meaning the storms that we get in the upcoming months will be wetter, as they have accumulated more water vapor, than they normally would be. I understand that climate change is real and is happening and has been largely made worse by human activity, but stupid comments like that don't help, you're just saying propaganda. If you want to be on the side that science is on, than follow the science and do some research, don't just spout random bullshit that you think will rally people to your side, because that is what the Republicunts do, and we're better than that, so stop acting like them.
He still extracted that wealth from his employees labour. The fact that he's spending other people's money on charity doesn't mean I can't criticise him, I'll just praise him for at least doing charitable acts.
You guys are missing the point; the focus is not obtaining drinking water, it's about making use of sewage water that is present everywhere in third world countries. People, especially children and elderly die from diseases due to consumption and exposure to filthy water. If this technology becomes cost effective to the point of getting implemented in those poor countries, it will be revolutionary. It is possible that nothing has been done to improve living conditions in poor countries deliberately. Maybe the deaths by disease contribute to the agenda of some governments in order to decrease human population and this project will be prevented from taking off. I do not know the "truth out there" but it is a possibility. Let's hope that Bill Gates doea have some balls to negotiate with the illuminatis or whoever runs the world and make this life saving method become popular.
Distillation doesn't make water completely clean. Some substances evaporate with water, otherwise you wouldn't have things such as acid rain. I wonder what other processes besides distillation they are using to clean that water. Did they analyse that water with a mass spectrometer to make sure it was clean?
I would drink it because I actually trust science and I don't patronize scientists by assuming that they didn't think about any of the points it took tyt 1 hour to come up with.
Water shortage is a big deal, and will only get worse, so any innovations that can help is a big help. Also, if your grossed out by this, if you're thirsty enough, you'll drink this with no second thoughts.
There's also the small point that there probably isn't a single drop of water on this planet that hasn't been run through an animal and been a part of poop at some point. It's just a question of how recently.
Well the only problem I see with this is that the water coming out is distilled which doesn't have any of the minerals that we need so if they had those added then I would totally drink this
So compared to our waste treatment in most of the US, which is supplied by sewage lines, this just uses the raw waste. Where they would use this, they'd have no sewage infrastructure in place so extracting (and I hope filtering) water from it is a bit different from what we have. We just filter and treat our sewage. Also, why haven't we setup ways to make electricity from our treatment plants. I heard rumors in the past but they've kind of died down a bit. Hmmm.
I would drink it. I know it years to come that we will not have the drinking water we have now to waste, and we need this. I agree there needs to be major regulations, but if they do monitor it and regulate it I am on board. Our drinking water now will not be able to sustain us for much longer in the developed countries, and it's already not in undeveloped countries. This idea is great.
Of course, we do. Everybody. We only don't see the process. It's a bit longer, but it's the same drinking from the tap, the water spring, the yellow river, clouds...
I'm pretty sure we already do drink many types of waste water. But me, absolutely not. Not knowingly anyways, I try not to think about it so the water stays in my stomach.
You already have. ..water goes through the toilet to the sewer system to a reclamation plant into a field..evaporates..then condebses and rains and ends up back in your glass eventually
Yeah this isn't new. not this exact machine, but I visited Mt Cook in NZ and as the town is in a national park their are many regulations to make as little impact on the environment and scenery. One of them was many consecutive effluent ponds that make the water cleaner and cleaner until it is clean enough to be consumed.
Let's make this a lot simpler and more realistic to the situation. Would you rather drink the treated water that may be contaminated something or would you rather drink the water that ABSOLUTELY IS contaminated with everything?
We drink treated waste water all the time. That's how the water cycling process work.
This is just another method so don't make it a huge icky deal, YOU ALREADY DRINK WASTE WATER!
Ik people are like ewww but the water from the sink in the bathroom and kitchen is treated water that has been purified and treated from the shit water. The water you bath with is recycled water from shit water. The water you drink at your school water fountain is shit water. Thats why its next to the bathrooms..smh
DeathRebel369 I don't drink nasty tap water though...
deenman23 mg lol you just made my night lololololol
Jparodyy
Do you honestly believe that is crystal clear water a spring in the Alps? Bottled water is filled from faucets most likely not filtered because it takes too much time... and time is money.
yes but people in poor countries dont drink waste water
Bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase "that's some good shit".
Hells yeah
It's the face
"Water!!! It's made from people!!! It's MADE from PEOPLE!!!!"
Dammit lmao...have my like sir.
UberNeuman -> didn't water exist before people?
Everything you drink has been inside of somebody at some point.
So...does that mean that someone else was inside you?
***** technically...yes
dont talk shite xD
It has, perhaps not recently, but matter can't be created nor destroyed.
So who knows where the elements that compose that mountain water have been over the course of thousands and even millions of years.
I mean, technically it has, since you drank water. Peed it out, it was eventually evaporated and slowly made its way back to that same spring, where somebody else drank it. Water doesn't disappear forever
When you realize that water is H2O and is just molecules. And that contaminated water is just H2O with many or a few unwanted molecules, drinking "poop water" isn't so horrific after all. All they do is take out the unwanted molecules and leave nothing but water molecules again.
Very very true 💯
e. cola? lol
it's e. coli...or maybe you were thinking of ebola
I know she is a bit foolish , unless there is a new super deadly hybrid disease that only she knows about, half bacterium ,half virus which can't be stopped !!
It's a new flavour from coke.
Or maybe cholera. Who knows? I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that mistake.
WhiskeyWhiskers
LOL. Funny!
Every drop of water you have ever drank has been through at least one person before you.
Biggest problem is that the water is distilled, that means it lacks essential minerals and is unfit as drinking water. Using distilled water as drinking water is lethal -- not immediately, but pretty soon.
Bill Gates is a killer
А, разбавить минеральной водой из аптеки, головы нет?
good to know, indeed, thanks, Maria
Not an issue if you have ample salts in your diet.
*****
I would expect distilled water, which is what this is , to be neutral pH, nothing dissolved i it means no acids or bases, pure H2O.
All water treatment plants in the US purify poop water, and we drink it daily.
did they not watch the video? you can see that the water comes from evaporation and that a worker is not involved in evaporation. sometimes i wonder about Anna and Cenk.
The thing is from what I understand on the video, the water from the waste is evaporated. If it has been heated to evaporation, it sterilizes it and doesn't contain any sort of waste. It shold be on par or even better quality then average tap water in america/
All part of "trickle down economics."
I know that we've always been drinking sewage water. I think the difference with this is that it's a small compact machine and not an entire factory/plant.
Wow, you can filter water. Amazing.
It does make you wonder about homeopathic medicine though. I mean, if water has memory, has it just selectively forgotten all the shit?
Water doesn't have memory. I have literally just saved you potentially hundreds of dollars with that information.
WhiskeyWhiskers You misunderstood his comment. He was essentially saying that if homeopathic medicine was true that the tiny amount of shit in it must have a massive effect but it doesn't because homeopathic medicine is bullshit.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Oh probably, it was fairly late at night.
WhiskeyWhiskers I wonder if you can get homeopathic medicine that remembers coffee? ;)
Why was there a camera cut between pouring it and him drinking it?
E-cola, Deliciously infectious!
I'm really confused, I was under the impression that tap water was recycled from waste already.
2:12 "Ecola outbreaks" Lol... the only thing worse is those Eboli outbreaks in Africa...
The technology has been around forever,
It's just super expensive to turn Sewage into drinking grade water compared to other sources.
And yes, if this takes off I would drink it.
This method is way less expensive it practically pays itself with the electrify it produces
I would not drink it simply because thats what spring water is for.... id take a shower in it i guess
Actually not really, the filter method to fully purify water didn't exist until the mid 2000's, so it's been around for about a decade (of course, lower quality filters existed before then, but drinking poop wasn't safe until then): those filters were relatively expensive. The breakthrough here is the cost reduction, so it's not just that we can sufficiently clean it (we had that capability before) - it's that we can clean it cheap-ish: and that's a big leap :)
lol..spring water is tap water.. do not believe what them bottle water say..it's just tap water lol...this is just as good as any water
Fuzzycat If you say so enjoy your mercury and fluoride lol
This is the same guy who brought us Windows Vista, Windows ME, Internet Explorer, and The Zune. Is it a good idea to trust him with someone’s drinking water?
We've been drinking dinosaur pee for as long as we've existed...
2:13 "Ecola outbrakes"? :)) Or, maybe you mean E-boli?
It's e. Coli, a bacteria found in the intestines and in poop.
Yes, captain. She said "Ecola".
i think she said E-coli which is a bacterium that can cause food poisoning i think
Listen carefully please. She said "ECOLA". that's the whole point. She clearly meant to say E-Coli, but got confused.
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that tap water is basically recycled water.
So we already do it.
The innovative part ( which they didn't really talk about ) , is that this produces electricity in the process, which makes it ideal in 3rd world countries which will benefit from both.
What's not clear to me is :
- how does it produce electricity , and is the process pollution free ?
- what happens to the remainder of the waste ?
All commercial billionaires use their money for good.
Gates, the koch, and Romney pay only 15% in federal taxes. That's why the have many to spare. Bill, you still owe us money
Kevin Lopez So?
MrJarth if bill were to pay ordinary tax 30% instead of capital gain tax 15%, we would have 4 billion dollars. Enough to fund NIH for three months. However, the money would more likely go to fund more wars in the middle East
Kevin Lopez
Romney isn't billionaire in first place.
rtainc No, he's a multimillionaire.
Ecola?😂😂
nope! I live in australia I will continue drinking my rain water thanks.
this is a good idea for poor countries though.
this type of technology has been in use for many years. the particular system shown here is highly inefficient. boiling the water to steam and then condensing it back to water is extremely costly. there are many better ways of just separating out the water from the waste.
Sewage water to drinking water? No! Why? Too mant pharmaceutical and medical waste may still make it through the filtering/cleaning process.
Atmospheric water generation? Yes!
Desalinization? Yes!
Deep ground aquifers? Yes!
Rain water filtration? Yes!
we use animal waste as fertilizer for crops, in most cases we pump the animals full of pharmaceuticals in order to produce more.
Timefliesbye
I don't drink tap water.
Pretty much all the water you drink come from sewage treatment plant that remove the poop and other stuff, and pump it back to you.
It's distilled water, any heavy molecule, including drugs have boiling points higher than water. So, most drugs are left in the waste
Not a single pharmaceutical or medical product will get through this process, not one. The water produced via this method is cleaner than any water you have had in your life. That's the point of using poop to test it, but it applies equally to contaminated rivers, or bog water, or a slurry of drugs - the only thing that survives is H2O. The only form of contamination that could survive this process is extremely high levels of radiation: so as long as you aren't trying to drink the cooling pond of your local nuclear reactor, it's the cleanest water on the planet.
We have the same machines in the developed world but we call them water treatment plants or dam's. It doesn't matter where you live or how expensive your water is we are all drinking poop water.
That taint changing @ 0:16 is hysterical.
If you live in a city along the Mississippi River, you're already drinking water that was once sewage, unless you live at the headwaters. By the time the water reaches New Orleans, it's gone through something like 270 wastewater treatment plants. Many cities use their wastewater effluent for watering grass in parks or for cooling in powerplants, and we're moving towards just sending it back to the drinking water treatment plant.
I'll be graduating this spring with a Water Quality Science degree, and last summer I interned at a city's water and wastewater treatment plants. The water leaving the wastewater plant has to meet standards so it isn't polluting the environment, which often means it is cleaner than the streams and lakes it enters, and safer to drink as well.
Wasn't it in California where a huge reservoir was emptied when one guy pissed into it? It cost like hundreds of thousands of dollars but the guy who was in charge of the operation argued that it had to be done because of the "yuck-factor".
I had this cool substitute teacher in second grade who said: Because of the water cycle you've all drunk the piss of every Icelandic settler. Probably true but hilarious to 8 year olds
A radio caller mentioned this system was already in place in Texas, and that the resulting water was better than the previous tap water.
Isn't this already a common practice? We visited a water treatment plant when I was in middle school and what was described there is exactly what was described in the video
That's the same water in Poland Spring bottles
That water is cleaner than any ice cubes you get at a restaurant.
As long as there extracting the vapor by heating the sewage there's no need for scepticism, even in tundra when water gets evaporated from animal waste at the lowest temperatures possible it's still safe to drink
*sigh* we already drink treated water. the water is tested often, and if there is something wrong with the water you will be advised not to drink it until it's clean again. it's not that hard.
Did you do any research before reporting this? The water extraction process is not just running shit through a filter and hoping its's clean. The waste (be it feces, Corn husks, leftovers from meat production, etc) is boiled and liquid is collected. It's a very simple distillation process, the end user would have to work VERY hard to screw it up.
From creating T.V to drinking doodoo water? Bill gates has fallen ):
Cutting corners to save money on water made from poop is the lowest kind of low.
This is not human waste "treated" or "converted" into water. This is just water separated from the waste. The sludge of human waste is boiled and out of it rises water vapor that is then liquefied.
this water is clearly safe because not only do they boil it but only the water vapor is captured making it more pure than tap water
Bill Gates was probably like,
*raises glass* For science!
There are people drinking treating sewage water in municipalities all over the globe this very minute. What's different here is it looks to be a more compact system and something they could deploy in undeveloped areas without a lot of infrastructure with added electricity benefits. Astronauts also recycle waste water for consumption.
These processors do work. You can put the suction into raw sewage and filter the water out of it. This tech (reverse osmosis) is over 10yrs old. Ships use it to desalinate and purify their water at sea. Doesn't matter if Ana has no interest in drinking processed water, if she insists on living in LA, she will either pay inflated rates for imported water, or drink processed water.
It's distillation.
How is this new?
Also you're already drinking "poop water".
There's no such thing as "new water".
its distilled water. no problem. it has been cleaned when it was in the form of steam.
everyone knows the USA has no regulations on drinking water, poor people drink crap and wells get destroyed by fracking.
Newsflash: We're already drinking recycled water. We're already drinking poop water.
Bill gates: drink poopy water
Me: What a legend
Scepticism is good and all but how can anyone mess up vaporation of H2O? It literally is like boiling water, it would be an additional effort to reintroduce waste to the water once the sludge is boiling.
This girl on the video is so cute, she doesn't know that water has always been recycled yet.
Sounds fine until people realize that after filtering waste the final product winds up having more than just trace amounts of Dihydrogen monoxide that your family could wind up drinking! No matter how hard scientists try, removing all dihrydorgen monoxide from drinking water is near impossible, unless they do such a good job nothing is left
It's not that I don't trust the technology, but I'd rather have more steps towards cleaned water than something STRAIGHT out of sewage.
For all of you in the comment section stating that this technology has been around forever.
People, there is a difference between a system that takes pluvial water or river water, stores in in tanks and through decantation and filtering techniques make water clean and drinkable and a machine that can take waste as input and create water, electricity and patogen-free ash.
In many third world countries there are not enough water resources, or money, to create water treatment facilities that can benefit everyone. There are remote locations where piping can not reach and there are a lot of places where waste makes the river water undrinkable. So this system, will surely benefit a lot of communities around the globe.
this already exists here in america for 50+ years its called Water Treatment Plants, Where do people think our sewage goes now - water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-home-wastewater.html
He drank one molecule of water. That's his idea of effort.
We already drink it, only it's filtered differently. Do you think there is any water left on earth that hasn't been consumed previously?
Huh? I thought this was already being done for years, atleast in the Netherlands and many other European countries. There is a water recycling center (or whatever it's called) right outside my city that purifies sewage water to make it drinkable.
You would think that the country that keeps yelling it's #1 would have this already... Wait...
Sounds like the water is all distilled. That is as pure as it can get. Anyone that has a house with a septic system and a well uses recycled water. That water goes into the septic tank the solids seperate with gravity the water goes through the tubes into the leech field and drains into the ground. it goes through the ground and is filtered through the rock dirt sand and whatever else is down there and ends up mixed in with the well water. This is why you dont put a well next to the outhouse you need that distance to filter it. But in this case its all distilled and that water should technically be as pure as it gets. the same process could turn salt water into drinking water.
distill water, cleanest form of water, anything with water in it it can turn into clean water, still cleaner than tap water.
I think its interesting, i would try it and if you're still worried about the water straight out of the machine just go home and boil it to 195 degrees, put it in a clean bottle and put it in your fridge. You'll be fine.
Most of us are already drinking, at least partially, recycled water. The noteworthy thing here is the energy positive recycling technology. Just make sure it's a public utility,
Everybody on the planet is drinking "poop water".
I don't see how corporations would screw this up. Either the technology works or it doesn't. Do you avoid large hospitals because you're afraid they're going to cut corners on medical care for a profit?
Not that special. Just a more efficient version of the current process used in the US of waste water and water treatment plants to provide clean water for their citizens.
OF COURSE! It is such a waste to flush our toilets and the water that we do purify is usually cleaner than water from any of our polluted rivers or lakes
Ana: "I live in California where we deal with droughts because of climate change."
No, we deal with droughts because we live in a Mediterranean climate which means that drastic swings in the annual rainfall away from the normal are common. This last drought was the driest drought we have had since our records started being kept, but that does not indicate climate change. Periods of higher than normal rainfall and periods of lower than normal rainfall are traits of the climate that we live in. The normal rainfall amount is actually expected to increase in California by a few inches over the next century. Don't just say shit that you know nothing about. If the professionals really thought that the drought was going to be a huge problem, than they would have instigated more water saving measures and probably mandatory rationing amongst large corporations, farms, and even households; but they haven't because they know that the rain will return. Matter of fact, we are experiencing an El Niño right now, meaning the ocean temperatures off of our coast are warmer than usual, which means that the dew point temperatures over the ocean and along the coast are higher than they normally would be, meaning the storms that we get in the upcoming months will be wetter, as they have accumulated more water vapor, than they normally would be. I understand that climate change is real and is happening and has been largely made worse by human activity, but stupid comments like that don't help, you're just saying propaganda. If you want to be on the side that science is on, than follow the science and do some research, don't just spout random bullshit that you think will rally people to your side, because that is what the Republicunts do, and we're better than that, so stop acting like them.
He still extracted that wealth from his employees labour. The fact that he's spending other people's money on charity doesn't mean I can't criticise him, I'll just praise him for at least doing charitable acts.
Now all we have to do is get the Koch brothers to do the same with the water that happens to be near all their fracking facilities.
You guys are missing the point; the focus is not obtaining drinking water, it's about making use of sewage water that is present everywhere in third world countries. People, especially children and elderly die from diseases due to consumption and exposure to filthy water. If this technology becomes cost effective to the point of getting implemented in those poor countries, it will be revolutionary. It is possible that nothing has been done to improve living conditions in poor countries deliberately. Maybe the deaths by disease contribute to the agenda of some governments in order to decrease human population and this project will be prevented from taking off. I do not know the "truth out there" but it is a possibility. Let's hope that Bill Gates doea have some balls to negotiate with the illuminatis or whoever runs the world and make this life saving method become popular.
Solution: get recycled water and put it through your personal filter.
Distillation doesn't make water completely clean. Some substances evaporate with water, otherwise you wouldn't have things such as acid rain. I wonder what other processes besides distillation they are using to clean that water. Did they analyse that water with a mass spectrometer to make sure it was clean?
Lizards are immune to poop water.
I would drink it because I actually trust science and I don't patronize scientists by assuming that they didn't think about any of the points it took tyt 1 hour to come up with.
You will probably drink the same glass of water 7 times anyway. This isn't that much different,
The water that they processed from poop is actually mor pure than the bottled water we drink
What surprises me about this story is how relatively small that entire machine is.
Water shortage is a big deal, and will only get worse, so any innovations that can help is a big help. Also, if your grossed out by this, if you're thirsty enough, you'll drink this with no second thoughts.
missed graphic opportunity: 'There's a shit in the water'
It's just distilled water. You can make your own still; it;s pretty easy.
More people have cell phones than toilets. This is an excellent invention.
Note that the video is cut before Bill takes a drink, so they could have switched the glasses. )
That single glass of water probably required 20 turds.
There's also the small point that there probably isn't a single drop of water on this planet that hasn't been run through an animal and been a part of poop at some point. It's just a question of how recently.
Gates should have just said "It doesn't taste like ass!"
#ThatMomentWhen you realize in 2015 people from western countries still didn't realize they already drink, shower and cook with waste water...
Chlorination of the water after processing will be a good backup even if something went wrong at the processing plant.
Well the only problem I see with this is that the water coming out is distilled which doesn't have any of the minerals that we need so if they had those added then I would totally drink this
So compared to our waste treatment in most of the US, which is supplied by sewage lines, this just uses the raw waste. Where they would use this, they'd have no sewage infrastructure in place so extracting (and I hope filtering) water from it is a bit different from what we have. We just filter and treat our sewage. Also, why haven't we setup ways to make electricity from our treatment plants. I heard rumors in the past but they've kind of died down a bit. Hmmm.
water that comes from a river will have all kinds of nasty in it, same goes for seawater, groundwater, even rain water gets dirty on its way down.
Once treated it is no longer sewage water.
I would drink it. I know it years to come that we will not have the drinking water we have now to waste, and we need this. I agree there needs to be major regulations, but if they do monitor it and regulate it I am on board. Our drinking water now will not be able to sustain us for much longer in the developed countries, and it's already not in undeveloped countries. This idea is great.
Of course, we do. Everybody. We only don't see the process. It's a bit longer, but it's the same drinking from the tap, the water spring, the yellow river, clouds...
I'm pretty sure we already do drink many types of waste water. But me, absolutely not. Not knowingly anyways, I try not to think about it so the water stays in my stomach.
You already have. ..water goes through the toilet to the sewer system to a reclamation plant into a field..evaporates..then condebses and rains and ends up back in your glass eventually
I guess the water was....
SHITTY!
Bill Gates;
Making cannibalism cool since yesterday
Yeah this isn't new. not this exact machine, but I visited Mt Cook in NZ and as the town is in a national park their are many regulations to make as little impact on the environment and scenery. One of them was many consecutive effluent ponds that make the water cleaner and cleaner until it is clean enough to be consumed.
Let's make this a lot simpler and more realistic to the situation.
Would you rather drink the treated water that may be contaminated something or would you rather drink the water that ABSOLUTELY IS contaminated with everything?