Power up your Poop

The Dutch Ministry of Defence wants to drastically reduce its environmental footprint during missions. For example, by discharging less slurry and using 80% less water. To this end, Jotem water solutions developed the ‘Power up your Poop’ pilot system. This sophisticated water purification system purifies waste water into usable water.

At the heart of the ‘Power up your Poop’ unit is a membrane bioreactor with millions of microbes. Waste water enters the bioreactor, the microbes purify the liquid and, after passing through the membrane, the water that comes out is clean enough to be reused to flush toilets or hose down vehicles. The unit was built for maximum environmental efficiency and is robust enough for harsh environments and military operations.

Working together on a promising innovation

‘Power up your Poop’ is a major step in the development of flexibly deployable and sustainable sanitary solutions. Solutions that can be of great value all over the world. Through intensive collaboration with the Dutch Ministry of Defence and our partners in the Corps of Engineers, we learned a lot about sustainable sanitation. And by intensively monitoring the unit, we are continuously working to improve it.

We are using this knowledge to develop similar solutions for other organisations. Standalone waste water treatment when and where it’s needed. Whatever the circumstances. We want to meet this challenge as a committed partner that desires to achieve and innovate more in collaborative partnerships. A partner that will always provide full support in terms of control technology, maintenance and commissioning.