Increasing Threat of Scarcity Prompts Rise in Water Recycling  

作　　者：Chris Palmer 

机构地区：[1]不详

出　　处：《Engineering》2024年第2期6-8,共3页工程（英文）

摘　　要：In January 2018,construction wrapped on Salesforce Tower(Fig.1),a 61-story office building that now dominates the skyline of San Francisco,CA,USA.In addition to being the tallest building in the city,Salesforce Tower is the largest structure in the world with an onsite water recycling system.Built by the Australian com-pany Aquacell(Milton,NSW,Australia),the system cleans 113 m^(3)of sewage,sink,shower,and other wastewater each day for use in irrigation and flushing toilets,saving an estimated 35000 m?of water anmually[1].The building is just one of dozens in San Fran-cisco outitted with their own water recycling systems,thanks to a city mandate enacted in 2015[1].

关 键 词：CYCLING WASTEWATER recycling 

分 类 号：V47[航空宇航科学与技术—飞行器设计]