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The American West has been hit hard by drought, resulting in people looking into different ways of reusing wastewater.

Two companies in San Francisco have now come up with an unusual way to recycle grey water from the laundry, showers and bathroom sinks of a skyscraper in the city - they're turning it into beer!

Aaron Tartakovsky's the CEO of Epic Cleantec, which treats the wastewater.

The 28,000 litres collected daily from the building are put through an advanced treatment process including filter membranes one thousandth the width of a human hair and disinfection using ultraviolet light and chlorine.

While much of the treated water's directed back into the building for use in showers and irrigation systems, a remainder is piped to the Devil's Canyon Brewery to be turned into beer.

Chris Garrett, the brewery's owner, was initially shocked at the thought of turning bathwater into beer.

Prevented from selling the beer commercially by California law, the two companies have been distributing free cans of the beverage in order to raise awareness.

And despite some hesitancy, with naysayers in the US calling water recycling 'toilet to tap', the need for water is great.

California's planning to adopt new measures to introduce this technology more widely by the end of the year, and Tartakovsky believes the public are finally open to the prospect of recycled water.

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