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How a South African Factory Turned Sewage into Clean Water
In this episode of The Manufacturing Podcast, Lucas and Luna visit a factory outside Johannesburg that has solved one of manufacturing's most intractable problems: how to run a water-intensive operation in a water-scarce region. The plant, a beverage bottler, now treats and reuses 95 percent of its process water — including effluent that would typically be sent to municipal treatment. We walk through the multi-stage filtration system, the membrane bioreactor that cost $4 million, and the surprising math: the system paid for itself in under four years by eliminating reliance on municipal…
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