By Timon Singh, Source: Inhabitat

Water recycling systems are generally used in remote locations, such as on board the International Space Station and Antarctica-based research bases. But a similiar system, which turn urine into drinking water, is now being used to treat groundwater for a school in Morocco.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has long been working on a closed loop life-support system that is able to process waste and delives fresh oxygen, food and water to astronauts. But now a similiar system, which can control the spread of unwanted compounds in water uses tiny filter pores to provide water in the town of Sidi Taïbi near Kenitra, 30 km from Morroco’s capital city Rabat.

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