14 DAY TRIAL // Courtesy of climate change and global warming, the world is staring down the barrel of frequent extreme droughts. The good news – for people who own cows, at least – is that scientists have come up with a method to turn manure into drinking water.
As detailed by Daiji World, researchers with the Michigan State University in the US have pieced together a system that makes it possible to extract all nutrients, carbon, and pathogens from cow manure and thus obtain water that is perfectly safe to drink.
The installation, dubbed the McLahan Nutrient Separation System (MNSS, for short) is said to be an anaerobic digester that doubles as a powerful filtration system and can extract some 50 gallons of water from twice as much cow manure.
Talking to the press, the Michigan State University scientists who created it explained that their system would especially come in handy in regions affected by drought. However, there is no reason why people who wish to improve on their ecological footprint could not use it as well.
Interestingly enough, word has it that the McLahan Nutrient Separation System produces more than just drinking water. Thus, whatever nutrients are extracted from the cow manure fed into it can be returned to the environment in the form of fertilizers.