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Making beer from recycled water

A water recycling firm and brewery in California have teamed up to create a beer made from recycled water.

Epic OneWater Brew, from Epic Cleantec and Devil鈥檚 Canyon Brewing Company, is made from water recycled from showers, laundry and bathroom sinks in a 40-story San Francisco apartment building, where Epic has onsite equipment to capture, treat and reuse water for non-drinking purposes.

Aaron Tartakovsky is co-founder and CEO of EpicCleantec. He told Newsday: 鈥淲e took鈥reywater鈥nd put it through an advanced purification process to produce bottled water quality and then we brewed beer with it鈥e created these beers to鈥how people the untapped potential of water reuse.鈥

(Picture: Shows people making a toast with glasses of beer. Credit: Getty Images.)

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