We often hear that we need to save water, that the water tables are emptying and that we could soon run out.
So to preserve this precious resource, innovations exist, such as voice-controlled taps or personal mini-wastewater treatment plants.
New technologies are often used to preserve the environment, and sometimes water.
A tap, which has the particularity of being controlled by the voice, was created with this in mind.
It is thus possible to ask him very specific things like: "fill me a bottle of 120 ml".
Thanks to its sensors, it will wait until the bottle is put right below the tap and will pour, at the right temperature, the right amount of water and not a drop more.
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Same thing when you want to wash your hands.
It works like in a public toilet: the water will only flow if the hands are just below.
There is still a manual lever to use it like any faucet, but with voice control, this tool offered by the Moen company will be able to save water by pouring only what is needed.
Because we are constantly told that we must save water, that the water tables are emptying and that we could soon run out.
Yet we keep wasting it.
Every time you flush the toilet or wash your clothes, drinking water is used.
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So to save, personal mini-water purification stations have also been created.
They are about the size of a large fridge and will collect wastewater from sinks, showers and baths.
Then, they purify them so that they can be reused in the toilets, the washing machine, the swimming pool or for watering.
The first machine of its kind has just been marketed by the company Hydraloop.
The cost is high (4,000 euros) but the machine recycles up to 95% of the household water.
The generalization of double drinking water-recycled water pipes would also make it possible not to waste any more, because it is by reusing water that it is saved the most.