Have you ever thought about drinking pee?


There is a country in this world where you and I live where people drink recycled water from pee
instead of natural water and that is for real which is one of the fast growing, innovative and
successfully developed country in the world. That is Singapore
Singapore recycle pee (urine) and convert it into drinkable water. I understand that we are not used
to this fact but think again if you had to walk 8 hours a day to get drinking water. Everyone should
learn from an innovative Singapore that how to treat the upcoming sad reality.
George Madhvan director at Singapore public utilities board said, “You drink water, go to the toilet,
you pee, and we collect it back and clean it”. Now that is great innovative change to consider for the
situations like California and south Africa where water boards are limiting the residents for less
consumption of water rather than the treatment like Singapore (Weise, 2015).
There are lot of changes that happen to us every day some are acceptable some not, but sometime
changes are important, and we should not be afraid or refrain from the change specially an
innovative and life saving change.
Major places like California where draught is still going from last from years, south Africa, Libya,
Western Sahara etc are struggling with water issues from years and that never-ending war is still
going today. Where girls’ and women walk for 8 hours daily to bring drinking water to home for use,
which is a full-time job in itself and is a struggling one. Reig, Maddocks & Gassert (2013).
Natural water will end but not human pee? We still have the fear of future but with changes like
these there are hopes for our future generation to end up in sufficient needs. Technology keeps on
changing and continue to present great ideas of shaping or overcoming these barriers and
outcomes. Where social life and commercial life is getting effected by these recent changes as this
recycled water makes 30% of Singapore’s water today.
Water recycling treatment process is the strategy that is driving this change successfully. As the
water goes through great treatment which is tested 150,000 Times through different stages till
bottling (Nas, 2018).
Singapore is trying to retrieve every single drop of it and cleaning every single molecule from it. It
requires less money, time, energy and effort than desalinization of the water because it does not
require much lot of pumping from ground, high-tech systems etc. Strategy consists of Utilising what
they have in smartly manner to overcome the issue. Here is technique Singapore adopts as well.

Image result for water recycling process

We should not wait for problem to hit us and then to make change, but we should start making the
much-needed change today that is what I call a Strategy.


References:
Weise, E. (2015, June 2). In draught, should we drink sewage? Singapore does. USA Today. Retrieved
from https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/06/02/singapore-water-recycled-sewer-water-
newater-california-drought/27958823/
Nas Daily. (2018). This is made of pee [Nas daily Group Global]. Singapore: Nas Productions.
Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTe5uqbdJIk
Reig, P., Maddocks, A., & Gassert, F. (2013). World’s 36 Most Water-Stressed Countries. Retrieved

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

When it comes to women, they have four basic needs, not three. Food, Shelter, Clothes and Sanitary napkins.

Image
This is a tribute to the one and only Arunachalam Muruganantham, who address the so-called dark side of 82% of Indian women who do not have access for sanitary napkins/ menstrual hygiene (Matharu, 2017). As per India population clock, 48.4% are women from the living population at the moment. According to Sood (2018), only 18% of that has education on menstrual hygiene and sanitation. Across India, menstruation is still treated as mystery and is prohibited to speak about it in public. Due to the lack of knowledge and facilities for menstruation, 23 million girls being drop out of school at the age of 12-13 annually, which is a serious issue that needs to be addressed immediately (Dutta, 2018). Arunachalam’s wife Shanthi faced financial difficulties as other 70% of women in India who can not afford to buy a sanitary napkin (Sinha, 2011). As Mathuru (2017) explains in his article, Arunachalam saw his wife using unhealthy materials istead of sanitary napkins during he...
Read more

Capsula Mundi - Life never stops

Image
I would love to be someone's breathes, someone's shade and someone’s reason to live even after my death. Have you ever thought about the life beyond death? The Earth needs its people to be more intelligent towards its future and take the best possible decisions at all times in order to protect the environment for future generations. The whole world’s natural ecosystem depends on the land, the soil. That is from where the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe comes. Humans are responsible for polluting it in numerous ways that we will regret soon (FAO, 2018). All around the globe the land surface human use as cemeteries continues to grow with the increasing population and scientists could not find a better way to die without harming the environment. Critical condition is that there are thousands of environmental organizations to question and protest towards the harming hazards for the environment but when it comes burial of a dead body loaded wit...
Read more

Dear Dave, Clouds are designed to float.. isn't it?

Dear Dave, Clouds are designed  to float.. isn't it? When the cold breeze touches my ears I looked up to see the clouds White, fluffy, floating and made in heaven (As my Grandma says, the official transportation service of angels) But it was all kind a messed up cotton wool - light blue.. (A gentleman from Paihia said to me, it is metallic black though) All of a sudden it was white and beautiful,.. I said to my self, enjoy the breeze look for the beauty of clouds knowing that gloomy days going to be there too Breeze will change into a storm.. Just remember to be calm and enjoy both Since you know you will be here to see many more beautiful clouds.. Just let the storm pass by and don't try to stop the floating clouds They are made to float Float with them as long as you can.. I'm here floating with you and clouds.. 5.53pm on 23rd January 2020
Read more