I'm not going to Mars....

[Uncle Gizmo]

I saw this article, and I decided on the spot. I'm not going to Mars!

NASA just recycled 98% of all astronaut pee and sweat on the ISS (engineers are thrilled)

Yes, the achievement hinges on better recycling tech for astronaut pee.

www.space.com

 

[The_Doc_Man]

According to the doom-sayers abounding on Earth already, this might the future of surface-dwellers as well.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

According to the doom-sayers

The doomsayers will also argue that man should not go to Mars and destroy that pristine environment. Christ knows what they're going to say when Musk starts dropping nuclear warheads on the Poles to free up the water-ice and make an atmosphere.

 

[GaP42]

Nature recycles water - every drink you take contains some H2O that has passed through the gut of an animal and excreted. Proximity to the process causes some to become more squeamish.

 

[Cotswold]

Well that is a first...............NASA is recycling something.
Up to now it has simply dumped everything it doesn't need, thousands of old satellites and other space debris floating around the Earth without the slightest intention of clearing it up. Not attempting to recycle, or remove a single item. As it continues to increase up there, it is bound to affect the Earth but nobody seems to give a damn.

I bit like US cities that used huge barges to dump thousands of tonnes of household waste into the oceans every night 20 or more years ago. Then they blamed people for not recycling plastic bottles for causing the massive plastic islands floating about in the Atlantic and Pacific. Even though most people who bought them hadn't even seen the oceans, let alone stood there and thrown a bottle in.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The doomsayers will also argue that man should not go to Mars and destroy that pristine environment. Christ knows what they're going to say when Musk starts dropping nuclear warheads on the Poles to free up the water-ice and make an atmosphere.

That probably won't work. Mars gravity is about 1/3 that of Earth and the nuclear-hot water vapor would just bleed out into space, lost for all time. Not to mention that who wants to drink tritium water?

 

[Galaxiom]

There are many rivers where the treated sewage of one city is discharged upstream from water supply treatment plants for towns further down the river.

A major capital city near where I live has a pipe from the sewage treatment plant where the treated effluent is pumped all the way back up to the water supply dam. It discharges through reed beds.

Many years ago when I was studying at university we did a project testing water quality in a nearby creek. The quality was generally terrible but improved dramatically downstream from where the sewage plant discharged into the creek.

 

[Galaxiom]

Not to mention that who wants to drink tritium water?

Just needs be marketed well.

 

[Isaac]

I saw this article, and I decided on the spot. I'm not going to Mars!

NASA just recycled 98% of all astronaut pee and sweat on the ISS (engineers are thrilled)

Yes, the achievement hinges on better recycling tech for astronaut pee.

www.space.com

Hmm. I agree that's funny, but I'm actually pretty impressed.

I'm very interested in the subject of water, water resources, salt water reclamation, etc.

It is very likely that water becomes like gold. Anyone who can make significant new strides in reclamation (etc. etc.) will be king

 

[pbaldy]

A major capital city near where I live has a pipe from the sewage treatment plant where the treated effluent is pumped all the way back up to the water supply dam. It discharges through reed beds.

I recently read that Las Vegas does something similar, returning treated water to a supply lake via a wetlands area. In my area they're talking about recharging the aquifer via treated water.