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Managing manure for clean water

June 9, 2015, Brillion, WI – Ross Thurston, president of Livestock Water Recycling Inc., is drinking potable water from a test tube that an hour ago was part of liquid manure from the 2,600 dairy cows at Shiloh Dairy in Brillion, Wisconsin.

Standing in the 5,000-square-foot building that houses the manure treatment technology, Thurston said that since 2008, his company, based in Calgary, Canada, has been developing technology to allow maximum recovery of nutrients from cow and hog manure and recycle the liquid into potable water for use on farms. READ MORE