Currently you see numerous famous Flemish people on social media sharing videos and photos in which they drink ‘Peewater’. In addition, they announce that this is one of the ways to save our planet. They don’t just do that drinking filtered urine. It is a stunt for the climate documentary ‘2050’ by Eric Goens. HLN science expert Martijn Peters explains why you would make drinkable water from urine, how new this is and whether you can really save our planet with it. “In practice we already reuse urine in Flanders.”

ttn-3