23 Jun Every Drop Counts
Some of the wastewater that has been flushed or drained away from the town of La Llagosta, a 20-minute train ride north of Barcelona, ends up churning and bubbling through a lattice of grey pipes and containers under the scrutiny of a small team of researchers who view this material as a golden opportunity.
This team has several goals. One of those is to show that water purification does not have to be a linear process — wastewater in, freshwater out — but that along the way we can recover some marketable resources. Another is that it could be possible to power the process with the gas it produces. All this of course without wasting a drop of precious water, which is especially important given the location.
From their pop-up laboratories, these researchers run experiments using wastewater syphoned off from the much larger facilities at La Llagosta’s Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP)operated by the local water institution, Consorci del Besòs Tordera, which provided the space for the pilot.
Read the article by Jake Threadgould for REVOLVE.