STAY IN THE LOOP

USE WATER TWICE

Water is everything. So why do we treat it like it’s nothing? We use drinking water for everything, including washing cars and flushing toilets. But we have no choice about our water source.

Or do we? Clean water solutions are taking an unexpected approach; scaling down to smaller loops in circular water use, and making the sustainable self-sustaining.

THINKING GLOBAL, ACTING LOCAL

For self-described “serial entrepreneurs,” Sabine Stuiver and her husband, Arthur Valkieser, it took the slower pace of retirement for a head-smacker of an issue to become apparent.

“We had made a successful exit, until one day, Arthur said to me, why are we still flushing our toilets with tap water?”

And just like that, retirement was over. Their vision is straightforward. Every building produces lots of slightly contaminated water, mainly from soap from washing dishes, clothes and ourselves. All that graywater is mixed with heavily contaminated toilet and kitchen wastewater, requiring an unnecessarily massive amount of energy and money to be cleaned, and allowing nature’s circular to be overcome by humankind’s linear water use.

Stuiver sums it up, “You don’t need to flush your toilet with drinking water, do you?”

Their approach to business was always about contributing to the world, but never with….