Goreangab plant: direct potable water reuse
Planta de Goreangab: reutilización directa de agua para beber
- Date
- 1968 · confidence high
- Place
- Windhoek, Khomas, Namibia
- Credited to
- Windhoek Municipality
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A plant that treats urban wastewater through several barriers until it becomes drinking water mixed into the network. Windhoek started it in 1968 because of drought and it is the first case of direct potable reuse.
Windhoek claims to have kept direct potable reuse operating without interruption since 1968. It is filed in the catalogue as domestic infrastructure.
What it led to
- a model for direct potable reuse in Texas, California and Singapore
- multi-barrier treatment for recycled water
- the New Goreangab plant (2002)