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Off the water grid: energy efficient and sustainable
https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/netzerodorm.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51[font face=Serif]February 23, 2015
[font size=5]Off the water grid: energy efficient and sustainable[/font]
[font size=4]University students live with "net zero" water system to test out the idea of decentralizing the urban water infrastructure[/font]
[font size=3]This University of Miami residence hall may look typical, but students in one of the apartments are participating in research involving one of the planet's most precious commodities – water.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), environmental engineer James Englehardt and his team created a "net zero" water system, which serves most of the residents' daily needs, including dishwashing, showering and laundry. All of the water is treated just outside the building, and reused in a sustainable loop. This system even removes common household chemicals, such as cleaning solutions and pharmaceuticals.
The research in this episode is supported by NSF award #1038257, EFRI-SEED: Design for Autonomous Net-zero Water Buildings. EFRI-SEED is short for Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation--Science in Energy and Environmental Design.
Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent
Marsha Walton, Science Nation Producer[/font][/font]
[font size=5]Off the water grid: energy efficient and sustainable[/font]
[font size=4]University students live with "net zero" water system to test out the idea of decentralizing the urban water infrastructure[/font]
[font size=3]This University of Miami residence hall may look typical, but students in one of the apartments are participating in research involving one of the planet's most precious commodities – water.
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), environmental engineer James Englehardt and his team created a "net zero" water system, which serves most of the residents' daily needs, including dishwashing, showering and laundry. All of the water is treated just outside the building, and reused in a sustainable loop. This system even removes common household chemicals, such as cleaning solutions and pharmaceuticals.
The research in this episode is supported by NSF award #1038257, EFRI-SEED: Design for Autonomous Net-zero Water Buildings. EFRI-SEED is short for Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation--Science in Energy and Environmental Design.
Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent
Marsha Walton, Science Nation Producer[/font][/font]
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> This system even removes common household chemicals, such as cleaning solutions and pharmaceuticals.
It will be interesting to see how this experiment gets on - not just for the "small community" aspect
but for improvements to the mainline water-treatment systems (which are not all removing the
pharmaceuticals from water being returned to rivers).
