Recycling Sewage in Brazil
Living on Earth’s Peter Thomson reports on a pilot low-tech sewage treatment project in rural Brazil. The facility will use water hyacinths and other plants to clean nutrients out of wastewater, and local farmers will then use the plants as compost and cattle feed.
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