Re:Hydraloop wins Best of best award at world's largest elec...
by Someone on Friday January 10, 2020 @03:24PM
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"It cleans and disinfects shower, bath, and washing machine water so it can be reused for toilet flushing, washing machines, the garden, or swimming pools”
⇒ This produces “greywater"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greywater). That can also be done (and, I expect, more economically) in a centralised location, but using that water would require laying a second water main to all houses.
An argument in favour of local treatment also might be that it makes it harder/impossible for users to use the wrong kind of water (drinking greywater or using “blackwater" where greywater would suffice)
⇒ This produces “greywater"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greywater). That can also be done (and, I expect, more economically) in a centralised location, but using that water would require laying a second water main to all houses.
An argument in favour of local treatment also might be that it makes it harder/impossible for users to use the wrong kind of water (drinking greywater or using “blackwater" where greywater would suffice)