Archinect - News 2024-05-02T00:46:49-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/78003651/duke-researchers-design-toilet-that-turns-waste-into-drinking-water Duke researchers design toilet that turns waste into drinking water Archinect 2013-07-26T20:20:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/lw/lwwjbtnrl576dptc.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>It works like this: people empty their latrines into a sewage receptacle (currently, latrines are often emptied into rivers), the waste gets funneled through a series of tubes and is pressurized at extreme temperatures, and the byproduct is clean, possibly drinkable water. Deshusses describes the process as &ldquo;a pressure cooker on steroids.&rdquo;</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>