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我们的排泄物具有惊人能力，但是大部分却不能被我们充分利用。莫莉·温特直面尴尬并呼吁我们重视卷入马桶的能源：能帮助我们抵抗全球变暖，激发改革创新，甚至节约成本的资源。
adj. 高级的，先进的
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- I want to show you some brave souls who've had the courage to embrace this advanced potty training approach.
- 我想要给你们展示这些英勇地灵魂，就是那些有勇气去拥抱这种先进如厕技术地人们。
- So those folks in New Mexico -- why did they do it?
- 所以这些在新墨西哥州地人们--他们为什么要这么做呢？
- 'Cause they're in a desert? 'Cause they save money? Yeah.
- 因为他们身处沙漠之中吗？是为了省钱吗？当然。
- But more importantly, they felt comfortable seeing what was going down the toilet as a resource.
- 但更重要地是他们会因为目睹卷入厕所的是一种资源而感到更舒心。
- Here's an average house in Portland, Oregon.
- 这是在俄勒冈州，波特兰市的一个普通房子，
- This house is special because they have a composting toilet
- 唯一特别之处是拥有一个堆粪厕所。
- turning all their poo and pee, over time, into a soil amendment.
- 能够逐渐把所有排泄物变为土壤改良剂。
- Their wash water, their shower water, is going underground to a series of mulch basins,
- 产生的洗手水，洗澡水都会进入地下，进入一系列封闭槽中，
- and then watering that orchard downhill.
- 然后用于灌溉山下的果园。
- When they went to get this permitted, it wasn't allowed in Oregon.
- 当他们去申报这个项目时，被俄勒冈州所禁止了。
- But it was allowed in five other states nearby.
- 但却在相邻的五个州得到通过。
- That was Recode's -- my organization's -- first code-change campaign.
- 那是我所在的组织“科技投资新闻资讯网”的第一次修该条例运动。
- Here's a great example where the Integrated Water Management approach was the cheapest.
- 这有一个水资源综合治理的很好的例子，它也是最便宜的方法。
- This is three high-rise residential buildings in downtown Portland, and they're not flushing to the sewer system.
- 这是波特兰市中心的三栋高层住宅楼，它们不会因为谈及下水系统感到脸红。
- How? Well, their wash water is getting reused to flush toilets, cool mechanical systems, water the landscape.
- 这怎么说？嗯，他们的洗澡水会被再利用去冲马桶，冷却机械系统，还有浇灌景观植物。
- And then once the building has thoroughly used everything -- aka, shat in it --
- 当整栋楼已经充分利用了所有的东西，就是曾经的粪便们
- it's treated to highest standard right on-site by plants and bacteria, and then infiltrated into the groundwater right below.
- 他们已经被植物和细菌净化过了，才会进入正下方的地下水系统。
- And all that was cheaper than updating the surrounding sewer infrastructure.
- 这一切要比更新周围的污水基础设施要便宜很多。
- So that's the last reason we should get really excited about doing things differently: we can save a lot of money.
- 所以我们来到了应该为改变而感到激动的最后一个原因：我们可以节省一大笔钱。
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