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In this online segment the G Word team takes us to arid regions of New Mexico. We see how wind powered pumps, once used to draw water from reservoirs deep underground, have become unusable due to decades of oil drilling. Instead of clean, potable, water, the reservoirs are now filled with millions of gallons of brackish sludge.
Though the condition of the oily mix looks grim, we see how one company is using an age-old process to transform it into perfectly clean, drinkable, water. Through a new, energy efficient, adaptation of desalinization, a process practiced by the ancient Egyptians, the company is able to clean the water while using a minimal amount of electricity.
But how clean is the end result? Can tasty, clean, water really be drawn from an oily mess? Would the president of the company drink the water himself? Find out in this exclusive online G Word clip.
