Product Inspiration

Up until the last few years, whenever I thought of bacteria, thoughts of sickness and rotting food came to mind. Now, I’m learning that bacteria are being harnessed to do all kinds of work for us- from generating electricity, to processing waste, to sensing chemicals. Here’s another notch in bacteria’s belt of achievements, as they’ve just been proven to clean water for drinking.

Basically, the bacteria are put into the unprocessed water, and consume any contaminants present. This takes a lot of the load off of the expensive and sensitive membranes that are used to purify the water further down the pipe.

With all of these cool abilities, bacteria are becoming less of a nuisance and more of a development platform to build new technologies on. Cool!

http://www.physorg.com/news122896811.html