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During the annual Copenhagen Summit Creative YES (Young Engineering Solutions) occur creative teams of young engineers, designers and so on against each other in order to create solutions for the world’s biggest problems. Among this year’s participating concepts, there are the so-called “Golden Shower”, a concept which can convert urine into clean water. The idea has prevailed and won the coveted Audience Award.

Music Festival as Example

The global environmental challenge that the team is addressed with the concept of the Clean Water uncontrolled consumption of water which in some parts of the world with verhindert.Bei music festival like Roskilde Festival in Denmark, for example, access to water, people tend to urinate which are situated around campsites and near the fences. During the nine days of the festival, 130,000 people estimated to produce 2,340,000 liters of urine on a daily basis.


the Clean Water concept works

The “Golden Shower” concept provides water solution for the showers at the campsites filtered through urine. The team developed a system. Problem of collecting the urine, which usually resolves seeps into the ground Through the use of a type of film that can encourage the designers the act of pinkelns to the fence. Even more, they also invite women to a “habit of the fence pinkelns” to join the. By a simple system of pipes, urine is transported to the filters, filtered and made available as drinking water afterwards.

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