Waste not, want not

Making contaminated household wastewater drinkable is the solution to water shortages, says one treatment company.

Published: 8 Jan 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: Business

For a nation obsessed with cleanliness, the thought of drinking water sourced from sewage seems preposterous, but Thais must resign themselves to doing just that as water shortages become increasingly common, says a leading wastewater treatment manufacturer.

Aerowheel’s revolutionary process uses less than half the electricity and treats wastewater a third more quickly than other processes, Premier Products claims.

"In the future, we're surely going to face problems with freshwater shortages, so it's crucial now to figure out how we can reuse water at least two or three times," said Suradej Boonyawatana, the chief executive of Premier Products Plc (PP).

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Discussion 1 : 08 Jan 2013 at 03.361
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Whenever the argument of "necessity" is made by one whose personal interests are in selling the solution to a problem, one should take both the "necessity" and its solution with a very large grain of salt -- if not laugh at them and discard them immediately.

Thailand has no unsolvable water shortage. It may have a water collection inefficiency. But it does not need this solution which Kuhn Suradej has invested in and is now hoping to convince this government is needed. One only has to look at a map of global rainfall to instantly realize that Thailand is blessed by nature with something other nations only dream of.
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