Three Ways Pee Could Change The World

We can use urine to make medicines, power cell phones, and create “pee-cycled” water.
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From Gunpowder to Teeth Whitener: The Science Behind Historic Uses of Urine, from Smithsonian:
http://bit.ly/1LkDKWb

Management of INfertility: Past, Present and Future (from a personal perspective), by Bruno Lunenfeld:
http://bit.ly/1LkFiPZ

‘Pee-Power’ to light camps in disaster zones, from UWE Bristol:
http://bit.ly/1LkDTsK

Urine-tricity, from Bristol Robotics Laboratory:
http://bit.ly/1LkDZ3w

From toilet to tap: Getting a taste for drinking recycled waste water, from CNN:
http://cnn.it/1LkEgTZ

Orange County’s Groundwater Replenishment System:
http://bit.ly/1LkKxPq

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Special thanks to Dr. Ioannis Ieropoulos and the Orange County Water District.

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Mobile phone runs on urine power - Bristol Robotics Laboratory
Courtesy University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LTprRQTKAw

Orange County’s Groundwater Replenishment System
Jim Kutzle, Orange County Water District

Microfiltration Basin
Orange County Water District

Reverse Osmosis trains of the Groundwater Replenishment System
Steve Crise, courtesy of American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Crystal-clear purified water from the Groundwater Replenishment System is piped to OCWD’s percolation ponds in Anaheim, California
Mark Greening, Orange County Water District

MF Cell
Steve Crise, courtesy of the American Water Works Association (AWWA)

Woman Teeth
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Clothesline
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Portrait de Dante
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Symptoms of menopause (raster)
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Toilet on the ISS
NASA


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