Can anyone help with this?
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:14:16 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
From: Shali Mohleji <sm8f@server2.mail.virginia.edu>
To: london@metalab.unc.edu
Subject: living machine question
I am a third year environmental sciences
major at the University of Virginia taking an
Environmental Choices course with Professor
William McDonough. I found this email address off the
"Intergarden" webpage. I am currently working on a project
where we are trying to redesign college dining halls. We
are trying to create living machines where we would install
the right type of plants and microorganisms to treat and
filter greywater coming out of dining halls. Once this
water is treated, it would go back into the dining halls
and be reused. The goal is to create a closed and
self-sufficient system that would be more efficient,
cost-effective, and use less environmental resources. I am
writing to ask if you have any idea what quality the
greywater would be coming out of dining halls. I am
guessing there would be solid particles of food, grease,
and soap in the water, but do you have any ideas what else
the water might be composed of? In addition, do you know
what quality the product water would be once filtered by
the plants? I have read that it is not suitable for
drinking, but I haven't been able to find just what quality
it would be. Once we know what is in the water, then we
can research the appropriate plants and organisms that use
those substances. In addition, would you know what state
regulations are for what can be disposed of in water? This
might be a clue as to what is dissolved in the greywater
coming out. I apologize for such a long email, but I was
hoping you might be able to help me answer these questions,
or even point me in the right direction of where to find
this out. Thank you for all of your time.
Best Wishes,
Shali Mohleji
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