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Would You Drink This Water?

Posted by michael on from the tastes-like-chicken dept.

theodp writes "NEWater looks like any other glacier-clear bottled H20. Except, reports Salon, it gushes from the toilets of Singapore instead of a bubbling spring. NEWater is the product of Singapore's new water-treatment system, and it's wastewater that's been purified through advanced synthetic membranes called ZeeWeed, which could help 20% of the world's population that doesn't have easy access to clean water."

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  1. Wow, how new by Confused · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Wow, how new the information that water is being purified and then reused. Water treatment plants have been doing that for the past century and most of it is redistributed as drinking water.

    Probably it was the c0o1 name of the weed to merit a story here.

  2. tad squirmish by bani · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ...arent you the people who made chewing gum illegal though?