French Open: clean and greener tennis using space technology
10/06/2021
Grey water recycling system
This year again, Roland Garros chose FGWRS to recycle grey water in locker rooms.
Each player who takes a shower is helping to preserve drinking water.
Thanks to this system, the shower water is reused for flushing toilets, rather than the drinking water usually employed for this purpose.
A MELiSSA technology
This water recycling technology owes its origin to the MELiSSA project, which has been developing advanced life support and recycling systems for crewed space missions for the last 32 years.
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