2007-05-28 11:26:08 · 19 answers · asked by Junior 1 in Environment ➔ Green Living
yes you can and there are some cities that uses wastewater treatment plants to recycle the water into recreational use and also there are a few universities playing with idea of recycling water by natural means where developed a system called "The Living Machine" where it uses different organisms to process waste into pure clean water.
2007-05-28 22:31:13 · answer #1 · answered by SouthParkRocks 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the urine, but you can recycle water. If you live on a city water system, they filter the impurities from your waste water and re-introduce it into streams. Just like the water that comes into your home came from other recycled waste water.
I read an article once about someone tanking up their bath and washing machine water to use as flushing water for their toliet...
2007-05-28 11:52:06 · answer #2 · answered by pipi08_2000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sources listed.
Just to build on the latter part of the question, urine is basically our body's mechanism to get rid of ammonia (e.g., Nitrogen), Calcium, and other by-products of bodily metabolism. The form that this ammonia takes when our kidneys filter our blood for such metabolites is called 'urea', and ammonia itself is toxic to the body if left unfiltered (terrible to find out for those with kidney failure!!)
OTOH, the urea in urine is phenomenal for plant growth, for example as biologically fixated nitrogen or a source thereof.
If there would be an easy way to extract/precipitate all the dissolved urea and other bodily by-products from urine, then the resulting water would be perfectly good for actual drinking! An even better way of reclaiming water is from the desalinization (de-salting) of seawater, of course much more prevalent in coastal areas throughout the world.
2007-05-28 15:22:35 · answer #3 · answered by nycace36 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's definitely possible. Water is really "recycled" and the water has been around for millions of years. The water you drink, could be water that Socrates drank in the past. The water is constantly recycling and being recycled.
Urine is "recyclable" and waste management teams clean and filter and "recycle" waste water from showers and toilets and such once it is "clean" enough (although I don't mean that they clean and use back in tap water and such, it's clean water afterwards).
2007-05-28 13:09:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water is totally recyclable. In fact, many cities around the world recycle water reclaimed from sewage. Astronauts drink water recycled from their urine. Earthship designs also has a system for recyling home sewage.
http://www.earthship.net/
http://waterrecycling.com/
2007-05-30 07:54:07 · answer #5 · answered by John Silver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true for both. Water is technically recycled when it goes through water treatment plants, and like one person said, the water cycle does that as well. Urine (mostly water but also urea nitrogen) can be taken up as nourishment for plants.
2007-05-28 12:01:54 · answer #6 · answered by Danagasta 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever considered that ALL water - urine etc is constantly recycled by nature?
2007-05-28 11:29:07 · answer #7 · answered by Moondog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water is a closed system. Every drop of water that ever was, still exists today. No more no less.
Evaporation, condensation, clouds, rain, snow etc have been recycling water for eons
2007-05-28 11:29:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possible to recycle water, astronauts do that to survive during space missions. Waste water can be distilled, sterilized, and then carbon filtered to make it drinkable again. Sometimes reverse osmosis is utilized.
2007-05-28 12:38:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how can you recycle urine? I would not want anyone's stinky urine not even my own!!!
2007-05-31 07:22:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋