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A CITY will become the first in the world to provide its citizens with fresh water using only energy from household sewage.

More than 200,000 people living in the city of Aarhus in Denmark will be drinking water through a system powered by the Marselisborg treatment plant.

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Aarthus in Denmark is set to become the first in the world to provide citizens with fresh water from energy created from household wastewater and sewageCredit: Aarhus water
reports.

An alternative form of organic bacteria is used to filter polluted materials from the sewage water.

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The Marselisborg plant can now generate more than 150 per cent of its electricity after a £2.5 million investment, which means the surplus can be used for pumping drinking water.

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: "Treatment plants must move forward from being energy guzzlers to being energy producers, and we have a really good example of this here."

Other cities including Copenhagen, Chicago and San Francisco are said to be considering using energy from sewage to power water supplies.

According to IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2016, the amount of energy used in the water sector will more than double over the next 25 years.

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