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Nice! Good to know.

But why have an evaporative cooling system and not use a system similar to internal combustion engines, with a closed circuit system? It would be more economic.

But I wouldn’t want to have to replace the gasket if it broke!

Depends on the amount of treatment steps it undergoes.

Standard procedure is aimed at just removing solid debris and organic matter, to return clarified and chemically balanced water to nature, with no excess nutrients that could feed algae in water streams.

From that point forward, it is just a question of how far the treatment can be taken.

For reuse for cleaning, washing, etc? Maybe it just gets a minute dosage of sodium hypocloride.

Highly sensible areas, like beaches or lakes? UV treatment, maybe followed by micro filtering. Extreme scenarios? Reverse osmosis.

If the protocols in place are strong, it’s safe.

As someone that works in waste water: do it.

The company I worked for made a show of signing a partnership with a beer maker to supply them with water to create a unique batch.

The water had to be mixed with regular water in order to balance out the profile, as the treated water had underwent an aditional step to make it safe for consumption (UV treatment and micro filtering); it was closer to filtered water than anything else.

Odourless, colourless and tasteless.

Who tried it, said the beer came out just fine.

Using treated waste water for cooling datacenters would be trivial. And cheap.

Except for when people get bad trips. Then it gets from sad to phychotic.