U.S. Navy “Swabs the Decks” with Recycled Wastewater

Posted by EcoFriendly

Mar 19

The U.S. Navy is legendary for its kick-ass cleanliness, and now it’s tapping into recycled wastewater to use for maintenance and flushing toilets. The Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal group based in San Diego has just purchased a self-contained, energy efficient portable treatment system from Global Water Group that is actually capable of bringing wastewater up to a level that exceeds U.S. EPA and World Health Organization standards for drinking water, though the Navy has no plans for drinking it (yet).

Even if you can’t quite wrap your mind around toilet-to-tap recycling, there are still plenty of opportunities to use treated wastewater for non-drinking uses, including irrigation. And anyways, what’s the big deal about toilet-to-tap – as the saying goes, there’s no new water in the world, and even bottled water has to come from somewhere…