About 4% of global electricity is used to supply tap water. That number will only increase and CO2 emissions can rival those of aviation. But a surprisingly simple idea can make our water supply more sustainable: In-pipe energy.

Credits:
Reporter: Serdar Vardar
Camera: Killian Bayer
Video editor: David Jacobi
Supervising editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer

Special thanks to: Scott DeNeale

We are destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't have to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world – and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: what we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we take a global look at how we can get out of this mess.

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Read more:

/"Pumped Storage and Potential Piped Hydropower/" by the US Department of Energy:
https://www.google.com/url?sat&sourceweb&rctj&urlhttps://www.energy.gov/eere/water/articles/pumped-storage-and-potential-hydropower-conduits&ved2ahUKEwjx8-K-x7H_AhX9S_EDHRrlATYQFnoECB4QAQ&usgAOvVaw2kKbLVADKKez_NgEzYjxyF

On the potential for hydropower capacity in the US from Oak Ridge National Library:
https://www.ornl.gov/news/existing-water-infrastructure-may-hold-key-generating-more-hydropower /Full report: https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/Files/Pub176069 .pdf

/"In-Conduit Hydropower Project/" by ALDEN:
https://www.mass.gov/doc/in-conduit-hydropower-project-phase-2-report/download

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:05 Energy-intensive tap water
3:27 Harvesting the excess pressure
4:22 How much energy can we get?
7:22 Potential in the Global South
8:40 Out

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