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Eco India: Treating sewage water to make it drinkable could hold the answer to Delhi’s water woes

How viable is this eco-friendly wastewater management technique called ‘toilet-to-tap’ that uses vermiculture, ozonation and specially-customized membranes?

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Oct 20, 2019 · 08:50 am
Siddharth Subramanian & Amit Bose
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