Every day, Anicet Mbida makes us discover an innovation that could well change the way we consume.
This Tuesday, he is interested in an invention to fight against the waste of water.
This is a washing machine that cleans the laundry using wastewater that has previously been used for the dishes or the shower.
Today's innovation should help us save water.
This is a somewhat special washing machine since it is able to wash clothes with dirty water.
This is paradoxical since it is the same water that comes out of the toilets, which is used to wash clothes and which flows from the tap and therefore that we drink.
It's potable water!
We are told, however, that we must save water, that we could soon run out, because the groundwater has difficulty filling.
Hence the idea of a washing machine that works with waste water (that of the dishes, the shower, the sink, etc.).
It will start by filtering it to remove the largest impurities with activated carbon.
Before using it for its washing cycles, like any washing machine.
How does it collect wastewater?
It is true that, in general, there are no separate pipes to collect water from sinks or showers.
This is why it uses a removable tank that can be filled with wastewater or rainwater, for example.
It is a small machine (less than three kilos of laundry).
It only needs eight liters of water to operate.
So the tank has been specially designed to be able to be installed in a shower tray.
This allows you to collect the water while you wash, then to do the laundry with it.
It is very clever.
The machine is called Lava Aqua X. It was developed by designers from Walsall in England.
It could well inspire the appliance giants for small camping machines.
But what we expect are the double pipes.
Because it is by reusing water that we can save it the most.