A restaurant in Belgium is not connected to the city’s sewer system, so disposing of sewage had been a problem for it until recently.
In an attempt to salvage the sewage problem, Gust’eaux, a restaurant in Kuurne, Belgium has adopted a complex, five-step purification system to recycle water from its sinks and toilets.
According to Odditycentral.com, the toilet and sink water is initially “cleaned” with plant fertilizer, then a part of it is mixed with collected rainwater and used for flushing toilets, while the rest is passed through a series of purification processes that make it indistinguishable from tap water.
The recycled water is then served to the restaurant’s patrons in a form of free drinking water, ice cubes or in coffee.
It is said to have no smell, taste or colour, so consumers cannot figure out any difference between it and water from other sources.
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Reports say the same purified water is used for brewing beer.
A representative of the restaurant is quoted as having told Belgian news channel VRT News: “The water that results is too pure to be drinkable, so we add minerals to make it healthier.”
Technology is making life easier for people all over the world but in this particular case, it is not clear if consumers would feel comfortable gulping down the sewage filtered water knowing very well that it comes from an originally unclean source.