Later that morning Hussien took me to Alpha Beta Food Industries. They are using the waste water from their factory to grow crops. They process all sorts of things from tomatoes to faba beans. The beans are soaked and turned into a paste called Foule. It's the water they use to soak them that gets recycled. The water goes in fresh but, to my surprise, comes out at 3.8 to 4dsm. Recycling water is a problem because it tends to pick up salts as it goes so using it is has its drawbacks. Alpha usually runs 30,000 tons of tomatoes through their factory and will probably use the water from that process as well to irrigate crops.
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