Around 4% of global electricity is used for providing tap water. That number is only going to increase and its carbon emissions rival that 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're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need 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'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

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Read more:

"Pumped Storage and Potential Hydropower from Conduits" by U.S. Department of Energy:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...

On U.S. conduit hydropower capacity potential by Oak Ridge National Library:
https://www.ornl.gov/news/existing-wa... /Full report: https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publicati...

"In-Conduit Hydropower Project" by ALDEN:
https://www.mass.gov/doc/in-conduit-h...


Chapters:  
0:00 Intro
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 Outro