Water-starved cities around the world are starting to turn to a once-unpalatable solution: recycling their sewage. And they have a surprising pioneer to thank for developing the technology — the southern African desert country of Namibia.
Water-starved cities around the world are starting to turn to a once-unpalatable solution: recycling their sewage. And they have a surprising pioneer to thank for developing the technology — the southern African desert country of Namibia.
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Environment
Recycling sewage into drinking water is no big deal. They've been doing it in Namibia for 50 years.
The World
December 15, 2016
Water-starved cities around the world are starting to turn to a once-unpalatable solution: recycling their sewage. And they have a surprising pioneer to thank for developing the technology — the southern African desert country of Namibia.
Justice
Africans take Germany to court in New York over 'forgotten genocide'
GlobalPost
July 31, 2018
Namibian tribespeople are attempting to sue the German government for reparations linked to a massacre of their descendants more than a century ago.