What are Your Thoughts on Recycling Wastewater?
Recycling water is going to be more and more evident around the world as time goes on. As all of the great thinkers today are writing, if you think we’re fighting over oil, wait until we run out of water.
With the change in the environment, the greenhouse effect, you’re starting to see parts of the world that are in major droughts. Right now as we sit here, northern Florida and southern Georgia are in their worst droughts in history. Thank God the green movement is really picking up.
I have to commend Al Gore because overnight, he changed the channel, I’ve never seen a movement happen that quickly. We all knew about it, but he puts this movie out and the next day it’s hip to be green. Before that, nobody talked about it. It was the hippies, those strange, sprout and granola eating, Birkenstock-wearing weirdoes. The next day, everyone’s driving around in a green Cadillac. God bless Al Gore.
What we’re talking about is pinnacle of why we have to recycle water. I’ve already looked at a machine that takes all of the water we use to wash clothing with and recycles it. Granted, these things are expensive today, but in the long run they will save you money and short-term you’ll be doing your part for the environment. Water is a major issue.
I’m a major fan of recycling water, and it’s a lot easier than some of you think.
In the 1960s through 1970, I used to visit a group called The New Alchemy in Cape Cod. The New Alchemy was showing people how to recycle water, and we did it at Hippocrates. We used to have a little farm there. Just using sand and rocks, we would recycle water. It cost us literally nothing to do.
I’ve spoke about MTBE, the deadliest chemical we have unleashed into the environment next to gasoline. That ethyl has to be distilled out. You can’t remove it with a sand filtration system. You need a very sophisticated filtration system for that.