![]() ![]() He claimed that independent testing of Epic’s cleaned water shows it meets US Federal standards for drinking water and often exceeds them.Ĭleaned water was passed to Devil’s Canyon Brewing Co in San Carlos California, which produced the Epic OneWater Brew.Īs it stands, strict Federal and individual US state laws mean that Epic and Devil’s Canyon are prohibited from selling their Epic OneWater beer.īut they have been giving away samples to test public reaction to the technology – and so far it has been positive.Ĭhanges in the law to allow the brew to be made for sale may be some way away, but already recycled water is permitted in taps in Texas and Arizona.Ĭalifornia, Colorado and Florida are formulating regulations about turning recycled sewage water into something suitable for public consumption.Īnd as Tartakovsky told his CNBC interviewer “using recycled water for drinking or potable use is quite common, but typically it is done on a municipal level. Tartakovsky told CNBC this process is comparable with the biology that takes place in the human stomach They filter out impurities and the cleaned water is then disinfected by using ultra-violet light. In an experiment, Epic fed wastewater from a large San Francisco apartment block through “ultrafiltration membranes” 100 times thinner than a human air. “We are trying to amplify the water story to tell it in a different way, and we are using the medium of beer to tell that story.” It grows the food we eat, we use it to bathe, cook and clean…and yet we know so little about how water works, how it gets into our taps and where the wastewater goes.” The San Francisco-based Epic Cleantec is primarily concerned with developing water waste and reuse systems.Ĭo-founder Aaron Tartakovsky told the broadcaster: “Water is omnipresent in all our lives. And the pressure on supplies is increasing. The United Nations calculates that just 2.5% of the world’s water is fresh water with extra pressure being put on that resource as the population heads rapidly toward eight billion.Ī Colorado State University study published in 2019 showed that half of the 204 freshwater basins in the US may not be able to meet monthly water demand by 2070. ![]() The process used could revolutionise the whole drinks industry at the same time as combating growing water shortages around the globe, not least in the US, where severe shortages are predicted from as early as next year due to climate change and population density. ![]()
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