Recycling sewage is a sensible way to improve water security – but would you swallow it?

By Silvia Gullino, Professor of City Making, College of Built Environment, Birmingham City University
Lynsey Melville, Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Computing Engineering and Built Environment, Birmingham City University

Our water supply is far from infinite.

According to the UN, nearly 1.8 billion people are projected to live in areas with absolute water scarcity by 2025, and two-thirds of the world’s population could be living under water-stressed conditions.

If water becomes scarce or unavailable for an extended period, would you drink recycled sewage water?

In his book Purified: How Recycled Sewage is Transforming our…

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