Drink Your Drainwater!

Many people use eco-friendly shampoos and soaps to ensure nothing harmful is being washed into groundwater. But who'd have thought you could take that runoff spiraling down the shower drain, pour it in a glass, and drink it?

By putting plants such as reeds and rushes in the bottom of a shower prototype, designers Jun Yasumoto, Vincent Vandenbrouck, Olivier Pigasse, and Alban Le Henry found the water, passing through the plant filters and other manmade filters, comes out crystal clear and ready-to-drink.

The Daily Mail has a whole feature piece on this contraption, complete with design plans for some ambitious Better Farmers to try their hands at.