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The high-tech water industry – producing energy from sewage

Bio-technology makes it possible: refuse water from the food industry turns into methane gas and that's used to produce power. Meter-high bio-reactors are an export hit and especially popular in Russia and Eastern Europe. The Darmstadt-based firm Envirochemie does 70 percent of its sales abroad. But now it beginning to feel the effects of the financial crisis. Marion Hütter examines.

DW-World | August 18, 2009Watch more videos from DW-World

Tags:. .reactors. .darmstadt. .methane. .marion. .sewage