Jim Fouts, the mayor of Warren, Michigan, a suburb just outside of Detroit, says that our aging water infrastructure is a “a ticking time bomb that’s ready to go off.”
A report by the EPA cites that repairing and renovating public water systems will require $334.8 billion over two decades. And as lawmakers debate over banking reform or universal health care, it appears that our nation's pressing water issues will not be addressed from a policy level.
Enter the Living Machine. Worrell Water Technologies' Living Machine system works with existing building and municipal water infrastructures to clean wastewater for reuse.
It utilizes planned wetlands, often times trees in the lobby of a building, using soil, bacteria, and "specially engineered films of beneficial microorganisms" to kill pathogens in the water.
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