Shower Of The Future Washed You With Recycled Water

Water recycling is nothing new, NASA has been recycling water from human waste to ensure that astronauts have enough water to drink for years. The shower of the future sounds like something that NASA would cook up. It captures water that would normally go down the drain and uses it to wash you. As gross as that might sound, the makers claim the water is very clean.

In fact, the shower makers claim that the recycled water that comes out of the shower is cleaner than water that would come out of the tap. The future shower is made by a Swedish firm called Orbital Systems. The reason it sounds like something that NASA would make is because it was developed in collaboration with NASA.

The shower conserves water by constantly cleaning and recycling the water you use. The inventors claim that it can be as much as 90% more efficient with water and 80% more efficient with energy than other showers. The shower comes in two versions with one being a standalone cabinet and the other being floor integrated.

The water flows out of the showerhead over your body and then down into a special drain with a micro capsule and a nano capsule. The micro capsule eliminates larger particles from the water with the nano capsule eliminating smaller contaminants like germs, metals, and emulsified oils making the water cleaner than what comes out of your tap. Those capsules have a cost of $25 and $100 each and are good for around 8000 gallons for the micro version and 26,000 gallons for the nano version. The floor-integrated shower costs about $4,000 with the cabinet model going for $5,000.

SOURCE: CNET