Can You Safely Drink Your Own Pee? — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00This is Mr. Beast and this is Mr. Beast
2. 0:03pee. And my goal in this video is to use
3. 0:05science to purify this into perfectly
4. 0:07drinkable water. At which point he will
5. 0:09drink his own pee.
6. 0:10>> Wait, you didn't tell me that part. I'm
7. 0:11going to drink my own pee.
8. 0:12>> But it's for a really good cause.
9. 0:14Because if I can figure out how to do
10. 0:15this, then the same technology could be
11. 0:17used to help the two billion people
12. 0:18without access to clean drinking water
13. 0:20to purify even the dirtiest water that
14. 0:23looks like this. Or even much, much
15. 0:25worse. Ew. Step one was to find a place
16. 0:28on the planet where you'd have a really
17. 0:29hard time finding clean water, but a
18. 0:31really easy time finding clever brain
19. 0:34solving that problem. And that just
20. 0:35happened to be Kenya. So step two was to
21. 0:38go there and meet the people doing just
22. 0:39that.
23. 0:41[Music]
24. 0:47Now, the first thing you notice when you
25. 0:48get to Kenya isn't so much the elephant
26. 0:50crossings or the random baboon families
27. 0:52you see walking around. It's these
28. 0:54yellow jugs you see people carrying
29. 0:56everywhere. And as it turns out, those
30. 0:57jugs are meant to carry water. And as it
31. 0:59also turns out, they were all headed to
32. 1:01the same place I was. Ruthie.
33. 1:04>> Hey, Mark.
34. 1:05>> Who knew Kenya was so far?
35. 1:07>> But so beautiful. Welcome.
36. 1:09>> Very beautiful. I'll give you that. This
37. 1:11lovely human is Ruthie, and she works
38. 1:13for Give Power. And they build a magical
39. 1:16machine that can turn even the most
40. 1:17disgusting water into pure drinking
41. 1:19water using only the power of the sun.
42. 1:21So, we changed literal ocean water into
43. 1:24fresh drinking water. I'll have you
44. 1:26taste.
45. 1:26>> I think you'll like it.
46. 1:27>> Don't try and influence the judge,
47. 1:29Ruthie. And when I tasted a cup of water
48. 1:30from either side of their treatment
49. 1:32process, hopes and prayers. Let's go.
50. 1:34With the before water, you could really
51. 1:36taste the before. That tastes like sea
52. 1:39water.
53. 1:39>> It is sea water.
54. 1:40>> This is what people drink. Yes. And the
55. 1:42reason for that is 96% of the homes you
56. 1:45see here don't have running water, which
57. 1:47means they often have to get their water
58. 1:48from unclean sources that carry a lot of
59. 1:51uncool diseases. So while you and I
60. 1:53might take for granted that we could
61. 1:54just pull a lever and effectively
62. 1:56infinite clean water comes out from a
63. 1:58faucet, two billion people don't have
64. 2:00that luxury. So they need to get
65. 2:02creative. In this case, by turning the
66. 2:04entire ocean into their very own water
67. 2:06tower. And I'm so glad they did cuz that
68. 2:08meant when I tried the after cup that is
69. 2:11crazy the difference.
70. 2:13>> This tastes amazing. This tastes fresh.
71. 2:15This was in the ocean less than 24 hours
72. 2:16ago.
73. 2:17>> It was.
74. 2:17>> Wow. So like no fish poop.
75. 2:19>> No fish poop. No colera
76. 2:21>> giardia.
77. 2:22>> No disentry. Nothing.
78. 2:23>> Not even disentry. Now to understand how
79. 2:25this was even possible. I built a
80. 2:26simplified transparent version of their
81. 2:28magic machine back at home and decided
82. 2:30to put it to the ultimate test.
83. 2:33>> Oh boy. Let's go. Oh no,
84. 2:37I don't like the noise.
85. 2:41>> He's got to turn it on.
86. 2:42>> So if you pump out the dirty water from
87. 2:44here, then after all this, a little bit
88. 2:45of extra clean water should come out
89. 2:47here. And to put my engineering money
90. 2:48where my mouth is, I vowed I would drink
91. 2:51that water.
92. 2:51>> Hey, why am I even doing this?
93. 2:53>> Two billion people in the world drink
94. 2:54poison every single day. And we've got
95. 2:56to do something about it.
96. 2:57>> By the way, this is Hayes. He's the dude
97. 2:59that founded Give Power. And he did it
98. 3:01after making a pretty obvious
99. 3:02observation. 73% of people in the world
100. 3:05live in coastal communities. And so it
101. 3:08seems ludicrous to me that we have these
102. 3:09oceans with all this water yet 2 billion
103. 3:11people lack access to it. Fresh,
104. 3:13affordable water.
105. 3:14>> So their trick to solve the problem is
106. 3:16to mount reverse osmosis water filter
107. 3:18systems and shipping containers, which
108. 3:19not only makes them easy to ship, but
109. 3:21now you can just plop the thing next to
110. 3:23a large dirty water source, even in a
111. 3:25totally remote location with no power,
112. 3:28and you can make 70,000 L of water per
113. 3:30day. Now, for some perspective, this is
114. 3:33a half a liter of water
115. 3:36and this is 70,000 L of water. That is
116. 3:39how much ocean water is magically being
117. 3:41transformed into fresh drinking water
118. 3:43just in one location every single day.
119. 3:46And it's all fully solar powered. So,
120. 3:48with my digestive system on the line,
121. 3:50it's worth explaining exactly how their
122. 3:52magic machine works. Let's say you have
123. 3:53two buckets, one with totally pure water
124. 3:56and one that has a bunch of salt and
125. 3:58gross stuff in it along with pure water.
126. 4:00Well, if you connect them, then separate
127. 4:01them with a barrier that has holes so
128. 4:03small only tiny pure water molecules can
129. 4:06get through, what you'll find is over
130. 4:07time the pure water molecules all on
131. 4:09their own will pass through those tiny
132. 4:11holes in the barrier to spread out and
133. 4:13hang out with more of their pure water
134. 4:15molecule friends over here. In nature,
135. 4:17that's called osmosis. Reverse osmosis
136. 4:20is where we do that backwards. We apply
137. 4:22a bunch of pressure to the dirty bucket
138. 4:24and that basically squeezes any pure
139. 4:27water molecules through that membrane
140. 4:29while all the salt and other junk can't
141. 4:31make it through. So, the good news is
142. 4:33you've got all this fresh water. Bad
143. 4:35news is there's one critical flaw. How
144. 4:37do you deliver a swimming pool worth of
145. 4:39fresh water every day when 96% of the
146. 4:42houses don't have plumbing? And the
147. 4:43answer is they give the water away for
148. 4:45almost free. As you can see here with my
149. 4:48buddy Mangala, he's the brains behind
150. 4:50the local water delivery crew. But today
151. 4:52that's delicious. I was the muscle. I
152. 4:54got this.
153. 4:56Mella, is it moving? How do you do this?
154. 5:00Oh, we got it. Who knew selling water
155. 5:02was so hard? I'm putting my back into
156. 5:04it. Feel like I'm doing most of pushing
157. 5:06here, Mangella. A fake pushing.
158. 5:09Let's go.
159. 5:11>> Okay, now your turn.
160. 5:12>> I soon realized I was better off as the
161. 5:14face of the operation.
162. 5:16>> Who wants water? Mama. Mama. Maji.
163. 5:19Where's our first customer? Maji fresh
164. 5:2140 shillings.
165. 5:24>> 20 20 20 shillings.
166. 5:26>> Actually, I think I work best as the
167. 5:27heart.
168. 5:28>> At this point, I'm more about supporting
169. 5:30emotionally. I can't imagine doing this
170. 5:32seven times a day. But these guys are
171. 5:34the water pipes delivering to the
172. 5:36individual houses that don't have that
173. 5:37infrastructure. So by selling the water
174. 5:39at a discounted rate to the guys who
175. 5:40come by with all the yellow jugs like
176. 5:42Mangela, those human water pipes can
177. 5:45then deliver the water for a small
178. 5:46profit, incentivizing them to deliver as
179. 5:48much as they can to those who need it.
180. 5:50And this way all the money stays in
181. 5:52their community. If they're not home, we
182. 5:55could just leave it here, right?
183. 5:57It's crazy that this fresh drinking
184. 5:59water was just in the ocean yesterday
185. 6:01and now it's in their house ready to use
186. 6:03for anything. How many cans do you
187. 6:05deliver a day?
188. 6:06>> 100.
189. 6:06>> 100. And you push all of them. I'm going
190. 6:09to stick to making YouTube videos.
191. 6:11Speaking of which,
192. 6:12>> I can't believe I'm doing this for a
193. 6:14stupid YouTube video.
194. 6:15>> It seems to be working. Oh gosh.
195. 6:17Actually, more is coming out than I
196. 6:19anticipated. Backup cop. Hold on. You're
197. 6:21sure this is going to work?
198. 6:22>> Well, I didn't build it, but I believe
199. 6:24the technology.
200. 6:25>> Oh boy. It does look clear. That is a
201. 6:27good sign. Moment of truth. I'm turning
202. 6:29it off. That looks like pretty dang
203. 6:31clear water. Oh boy. Smells like water.
204. 6:35That's a good first sign. Why am I so
205. 6:37nervous? Still smells like clean water.
206. 6:40Now, to be fair, my only saving grace
207. 6:41here is that 3 minutes and 59 seconds.
208. 6:44Later in this video, Mr. Beast is going
209. 6:45to have to do something very similar. Oh
210. 6:47boy. Okay, here we go.
211. 6:50>> Does that have to be a big sip?
212. 6:51>> It's a gulp.
213. 6:52>> It's a goal.
214. 6:53>> Put it down.
215. 6:54>> I never agreed to a goal.
216. 6:55>> Be brave. Be bold. Believe in
217. 6:57engineering. Believe in science. Believe
218. 6:59in a better way.
219. 7:05It tastes like very fresh water. That is
220. 7:07incredible. From this, it just leeched
221. 7:10out all the little pure water molecules.
222. 7:14And now I'm feeling refreshed. So, at
223. 7:16one location, you make 70,000 L a day.
224. 7:18>> That's right. And everything we don't
225. 7:20sell, we give away.
226. 7:21>> Let's go. And this was actually my
227. 7:23favorite part about everything they do.
228. 7:25And it's something Ruthie mentioned when
229. 7:26I got to write along for one of these
230. 7:28deliveries. So we choose schools and
231. 7:31hospitals and children's orphanages and
232. 7:34we give all that water away.
233. 7:36>> Hit it. The pump has started.
234. 7:41>> Wow.
235. 7:49And when speaking to the principal of
236. 7:50one of those schools, the real impact of
237. 7:52all this hit me.
238. 7:55>> Okay, here we go. cuz ever since their
239. 7:57school started getting clean water
240. 7:59deliveries, hey,
241. 8:00>> attendance has doubled because this is
242. 8:02the only access to clean water they
243. 8:04have.
244. 8:04>> You want some more?
245. 8:05>> And he said this means not only have so
246. 8:07many of their stomach and health issues
247. 8:08improved, but now they don't have to
248. 8:10spend time every day fetching dirty
249. 8:12water. So they have more time to attend
250. 8:14school and invest in their future.
251. 8:18And seeing these lovely fellow humans
252. 8:20who despite living on the other side of
253. 8:22the planet are so similar to us in so
254. 8:24many ways find such joy and appreciation
255. 8:26for a simple fresh glass of water was a
256. 8:29good reminder of what can happen when
257. 8:31the power of engineering is used for
258. 8:33good even for something as basic as
259. 8:35fresh clean water.
260. 8:37>> Okay. So you want me to pour my pee in
261. 8:40that bucket? That's right.
262. 8:41>> Oh my gosh, this is gross.
263. 8:42>> It's for science.
264. 8:47All right, Jimmy. Well, thanks to the
265. 8:49power of reverse osmosis, time has come.
266. 8:51>> Oh my gosh.
267. 8:52>> How you feeling?
268. 8:53>> Um, if I taste any pee particles, I'm
269. 8:55spitting this on you.
270. 8:55>> How much do you believe in the science?
271. 8:57>> Uh, you want just do it?
272. 8:58>> No, no, no, no. Before Jimmy drinks
273. 9:00this, if you're watching this video, we
274. 9:02need your help getting water purifying
275. 9:04systems like this to kids and people who
276. 9:06need it all over the world. So, buckle
277. 9:08up cuz the next 30 days are going to be
278. 9:10crazy. You might remember 5 years ago
279. 9:11when we did team trees and we raised $20
280. 9:13million to plant 20 million trees. Huge
281. 9:15success. So afterwards we did team seas.
282. 9:17We raised $30 million to pull 30 million
283. 9:19pounds of trash out of the ocean. Also
284. 9:20huge success. Which brings us now here
285. 9:22today to team water where we had the
286. 9:24insane audacious goal to raise $40
287. 9:27million to give 2 million people all
288. 9:29around the world clean water for
289. 9:30decades.
290. 9:31>> That means on average every $1 we raise
291. 9:33gives one human clean water for a year.
292. 9:36>> What if I do 20 bucks?
293. 9:37>> Bam. Now it will last 20 years. just
294. 9:40using this machine.
295. 9:41>> No. To scale this up and pull this off,
296. 9:43we've been working with Water Aid
297. 9:44because they're the best. They've been
298. 9:45doing this for over 40 years. They've
299. 9:47got a four-star charity navigator score,
300. 9:49and they can make sure the clean water
301. 9:50goes to 2 million people all across the
302. 9:52world. But to do that, we need to raise
303. 9:54$40 million, which truthfully me and
304. 9:56Mark Robber can't do on our own, which
305. 9:57is why we have all the biggest and
306. 9:59smallest creators on every social media
307. 10:00platform coming together to make content
308. 10:02on Team Water to help us hit our $40
309. 10:04million goal.
310. 10:05>> I'm so excited for Team Water. I'm in
311. 10:07for Team Water. Team Water. Team Water.
312. 10:10Let's do this.
313. 10:10>> So, join all your favorite creators on
314. 10:12Team Water by watching and sharing all
315. 10:14the Team Water content you see for the
316. 10:15next month and then by heading to
317. 10:17teamwater.org and giving as much as you
318. 10:19can afford right now. With all the
319. 10:20division and doom and gloom online
320. 10:23today, this is one of those rare moments
321. 10:25where we all get to push in the same
322. 10:26direction and do something really
323. 10:28meaningful. It's a chance to prove the
324. 10:30best parts that make us humans still
325. 10:31exist in abundance and that young people
326. 10:34could be a catalyst for positive change
327. 10:35in the world. I am so stoked. We totally
328. 10:38got this. All right, Jimmy, no more
329. 10:39stalling. Let's see it.
330. 10:41>> Oh gosh.
331. 10:42I'm just going to close my eyes.
332. 10:44>> Oh, interesting.
333. 10:47Yeah, tastes like clean water. #cience