M. Pivoda 4.10.2018 13:35

Toilet-to-tap: Jak chutnala voda ve městě Windhoek?

Toilet-to-tap

Water engineers politely call it “direct potable reuse.” Others call it “toilet-to-tap.” The United Nations calls it a massive untouched resource that could nudge society into a “circular economy,” where economic development is “balanced with the protection of natural resources...and where a cleaner and more sustainable economy has a positive effect on the water quality.”

In Namibia, the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, the capital city Windhoek has been doing “toilet-to-tap” for so long that several generations of residents don’t bat an eye at drinking the stuff. The city has been turning raw sewage into drinking water for 50 years. Windhoek has never had a single illness attributed to the reclaimed wastewater.

“Public confidence is that very, very fragile link that keeps the system going,” Pierre van Rensburg, Windhoek’s strategic executive for urban and transport planning, told the American Water Works Association, an international nonprofit, in 2017. “I think if there is ever one incident that could be linked back to the [direct potable reuse] plant, the public would lose all confidence.”

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A. Alda 4.10.2018 8:41

To je to pravé místo,

kam je třeba vysídlit moslemínské připrchlíky z Evropy. Tam se budou cítit jako doma. A mohou nám předvést, jak umí tvořit civilisaci.

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Z. Vostrejš 4.10.2018 4:37

oprášit němčinu

Braten mit Sauerkraut und Knödeln

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