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Eco-thinkers have come up with an amazing new way to create drinking water – by putting plants in the bottom of a shower.
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Designers Jun Yasumoto, Vincent Vandenbrouk, 34, Olivier Pigasse, 37 and Alban Le Henry, 32, came up with the mind-blowing concept when looking for new ways to recycle precious H2o.
The boffins reckon the water will be fit for human consumption when their eco-shower has finished with it.
After you have washed the water passes down into a series of physical filters and is chemically treated by the plants growing around you.
And the green pioneers reckon plant life like reeds, rushes, floating water hyacinth and lemnas could grow well in a basin at the foot of your shower – as well as making the water safe for you to drink.
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Yasumoto said: “These plants have been proven to be able to remove the chemicals from your shampoo.
“Using a natural filtering principle called phyto-purification, the bathroom becomes a mini-eco-system by recycling and regenerating the wastewater.
“Phyto-purification is a natural water-recycling process which is commonly used in ecological purification systems.
“With this project, we tried to combine the pleasure of taking a shower with the satisfaction of recycling water. We wanted the recycling process to actually interact with the use of shower.”
The waste water passes into a chamber below the shower floor where it goes through a maze of filters. Included in the network is sand, reeds, rushes, a mesh filter, water hyacinths and lemnas, and finally a carbon filter.
And the inventors – all graduates from French national design school Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Creation Industrielle – hope that the impact of their concept doesn’t just alter the way we bathe.
“We thought that by conceiving this very intricate relation between the recycling of water and the user experience, we could get the users to also re-think the way they use water,” said Yasumoto.
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After posting their seven-year-old design on the internet, the eggheads have been inundated with queries about where their shower can be bought.
“No prototype has been made as the project is just a concept for the moment, but it is interesting to see the positive feedback we are getting since we put these images online.
“It has made us think we should keep on developing this idea and start thinking of ways to integrate it and bring it closer to reality.”
Words by Liam Miller
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