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by Forestessential 1179 days ago
no the way to do it is with hollow fiber technology and other zeolite filters all which will need backflushing with detergents/bleach. Then you can run it into a R.O. array but the pressure needed is high so the system needs to overcome that.

Evaporative technologies are the other method to accomplish the same thing and if incorporated into a facility/structure that can use evaporative cooling because the draft of air over the water will need to be powered.

Underground sewer systems can be designed to hold more life, pass more water over more life, just like premise behind slow sand filtration and this will effectively treat the water as it flows. This is a first line treatment IMO. using sewer water to cool industrial facilities where the steam can be sequestered should be utilized too. Facilities that incinerate trash at high temperature with palladium catalysts can use sewer water to produce power.

how about builders find a way to build a impermeable membrane downward around the plot line of a property slowing ground water movement, then use septic systems with water treatment facility apparatuses in the home. I could burn my own trash, biodigest my own sewage and spectrogrpahicaly test it too for cheap.

Why on earth are people not doing this?!