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13 November 201913 November 2019

From Waste to Taste: Turning Pee into Tea Using Space Technology

Image of the Semilla Sanitation hub. It houses toilets, urinals, and sinks, and treats the wastewater on-site.

Everyone knows you can make tea out of water, but did you know you could make water out of pee? That’s what Semilla Sanitation has been getting up to with their space mission-inspired water treatment facilities.

4 August 20198 July 2020

Heat wave presses need for a circular economy of water

As many Europeans are already all too familiar with, this past July brought on some of the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Europe. As a deadly heat wave swept over the continent, heat records were broken in multiple countries, with Paris seeing a record high of 43°C, its highest temperature ever recorded.