{"id":117146,"date":"2020-12-15T11:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-say-pee-drinking-machine-could-save-lives"},"modified":"2020-12-15T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:22:15","slug":"scientists-say-pee-drinking-machine-could-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/scientists-say-pee-drinking-machine-could-save-lives","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say Pee-Drinking Machine Could Save Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-pee-drinking-machine-could-save-lives.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile astronauts in space need to get creative with their water supply, that\u2019s not to suggest that people ought to start drinking pee to access clean water. Rather, Aquaporin, the company behind the new system, suggests that the same kind of technology could be used to clean up other types of wastewater or filter existing drinking water supplies to the point that they could be used.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>As Above<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Roughly 2 billion people don\u2019t have access to clean drinking water, according to <em>CNN<\/em>, and a system like Aquaporin could help remove pollution and plastics from the supply.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has an enormous potential,\u201d Dines Thornberg, innovation manager at BIOFOS, Denmark\u2019s largest state-owned wastewater facility, told <em>CNN<\/em>. \u201cI think the Aquaporin system could lead the way in actually creating clean, affordable drinking water from wastewater in the future. I am really optimistic that we can meet the challenges of water scarcity in many parts of the world with technologies like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile astronauts in space need to get creative with their water supply, that\u2019s not to suggest that people ought to start drinking pee to access clean water. Rather, Aquaporin, the company behind the new system, suggests that the same kind of technology could be used to clean up other types of wastewater or filter existing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}