Aquaporin A/S, a Danish company that designed a water-purification system for the International Space System, has designed a new system that could provide more drinking water for humans on Earth. This new system uses proteins called aquaporins that could remove microplastics and micropollutants from wastewater, as CNN details:
Aquaporin's technology could help. The company is working with wastewater companies — including BIOFOS, Denmark's largest state-owned wastewater utility, and UTB Envirotec in Hungary — to remove micropollutants and microplastics from wastewater, preventing them from flowing into the sea.
A study conducted at BIOFOS showed that aquaporins remove over 95% of microplastics and micropollutants in wastewater, using much less energy than traditional systems.
"It has an enormous potential," says BIOFOS innovation manager Dines Thornberg, who led the study. "I think the Aquaporin system could lead the way in actually creating clean, affordable drinking water from wastewater in the future. I am really optimistic that we can meet the challenges of water scarcity in many parts of the world with technologies like this."
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ya it could, but i aint drinking it
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