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In this video, I'll have Mr. Beast drink his own urine, but for science.
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00:00This is Mr. Beast, and this is Mr. Beast's pee.
00:03And my goal in this video is to use science to purify this into perfectly drinkable water,
00:08at which point, he will drink his own pee.
00:10Wait, you didn't tell me that part. I'm going to drink my own pee?
00:12But it's for a really good cause, because if I can figure out how to do this,
00:15then the same technology could be used to help the 2 billion people without access to clean drinking water
00:20to purify even the dirtiest water that looks like this, or even much, much worse.
00:26Eww.
00:26Step one was to find a place on the planet where you'd have a really hard time finding clean water,
00:31but a really easy time finding clever brains solving that problem.
00:35And that just happened to be Kenya.
00:37So step two was to go there and meet the people doing just that.
00:47The first thing you notice when you get to Kenya isn't so much the elephant crossings
00:51or the random baboon families you see walking around.
00:53It's these yellow jugs you see people carrying everywhere.
00:56And as it turns out, those jugs are meant to carry water.
00:59And as it also turns out, they were all headed to the same place I was.
01:03Ruthie!
01:04Hey, Mark!
01:05Hey!
01:05Who knew Kenya was so far?
01:07But so beautiful. Welcome!
01:09Very beautiful. I'll give you that.
01:11This lovely human is Ruthie, and she works for GivePower, and they build a magical machine
01:16that could turn even the most disgusting water into pure drinking water using only the power
01:21of the sun.
01:22So we changed literal ocean water into fresh drinking water.
01:25I'll have you taste.
01:26Okay.
01:26I think you'll like it.
01:27Don't try and influence the judge, Ruthie.
01:29And when I tasted a cup of water from either side of their treatment process,
01:32hopes and prayers, let's go.
01:34With the before water, you could really taste the before.
01:37That tastes like seawater.
01:39It is seawater!
01:41This is what people drink?
01:42Yes.
01:42And the reason for that is 96% of the homes you see here don't have running water,
01:47which means they often have to get their water from unclean sources that carry a lot of uncool
01:51diseases.
01:52So while you and I might take for granted that we could just pull a lever and effectively
01:56infinite clean water comes out from a faucet, two billion people don't have that luxury,
02:01so they need to get creative.
02:03In this case, by throwing the entire ocean into their very own water tower.
02:07And I'm so glad they did, because that meant when I tried the after cup, that is crazy,
02:12the difference.
02:12Right?
02:13This tastes amazing.
02:14This tastes fresh.
02:15This was in the ocean less than 24 hours ago.
02:17It was.
02:17Wow.
02:18So like no fish poop?
02:19No fish poop.
02:20No cholera.
02:21Giardia?
02:21No dysentery, nothing.
02:23Not even dysentery?
02:24Now to understand how this was even possible, I built a simplified transparent version of their
02:28magic machine back at home and decided to put it to the ultimate test.
02:32Oh boy.
02:34Let's go.
02:35Oh no.
02:37I don't like the noise.
02:39Okay.
02:40Oh wow.
02:41He's got to turn it on.
02:42So if you pump out the dirty water from here, then after all this, a little bit of extra
02:46clean water should come out here.
02:47And to put my engineering money where my mouth is, I vowed I would drink that water.
02:51Hayes, why am I even doing this?
02:53Two billion people in the world drink poison every single day, and we've got to do something
02:57about it.
02:57By the way, this is Hayes.
02:58He's the dude that founded GivePower, and he did it after making a pretty obvious observation.
03:0373% of people in the world live in coastal communities.
03:07And so it seems ludicrous to me that we have these oceans with all this water, yet two billion
03:11people lack access to fresh, affordable water.
03:14So their trick to solve the problem is to mount reverse osmosis water filter systems
03:18in shipping containers, which not only makes them easy to ship, but now you can just plop
03:22the thing next to a large dirty water source, even in a totally remote location with no
03:27power, and you can make 70,000 liters of water per day.
03:31Now for some perspective, this is a half a liter of water, and this is 70,000 liters of water.
03:39That is how much ocean water is magically being transformed into fresh drinking water
03:43just in one location every single day, and it's all fully solar powered.
03:48So with my digestive system on the line, it's worth explaining exactly how their magic machine
03:52works.
03:53Let's say you have two buckets, one with totally pure water, and one that has a bunch of salt
03:57and gross stuff in it, along with pure water.
04:00Well, if you connect them, then separate them with a barrier that has holes so small, only
04:04tiny pure water molecules can get through.
04:06What you'll find is over time, the pure water molecules all on their own will pass through
04:11those tiny holes in the barrier to spread out and hang out with more of their pure water
04:15molecule friends over here.
04:17In nature, that's called osmosis.
04:19Well, reverse osmosis is where we do that backwards.
04:22We apply a bunch of pressure to the dirty bucket, and that basically squeezes any pure water molecules
04:28through that membrane, while all the salt and other junk can't make it through.
04:32So the good news is, you've got all this fresh water.
04:34Bad news is, there's one critical flaw.
04:37How do you deliver a swimming pool worth of fresh water every day, when 96% of the houses
04:42don't have plumbing?
04:43And the answer is, they give the water away for almost free, as you can see here, with
04:48my buddy, Mangala.
04:49He's the brains behind the local water delivery crew, but today, that's delicious.
04:53I was the muscle.
04:54I got this.
04:55Oh, Mangala!
04:57Is it moving?
04:58How do you do this?
05:00Oh, we got it.
05:01Who knew selling water was so hard?
05:03I'm putting my back into it!
05:04I feel like I'm doing most of pushing here, Mangala.
05:07I'm fake pushing.
05:08Charge!
05:09Let's go!
05:10Ah!
05:11Okay, now your turn.
05:12I soon realized I was better off as the face of the operation.
05:16Who wants water?
05:17Bambo!
05:18Bambo!
05:18Magi!
05:19Where's our first customer?
05:20Magi Fresh!
05:2140 shillings!
05:2420!
05:2420 shillings!
05:25Actually, I think I worked best as the heart.
05:28At this point, I'm more about supporting emotionally.
05:31I can't imagine doing this seven times a day.
05:34But these guys are the water pipes, delivering to the individual houses that don't have that
05:37infrastructure.
05:38So by selling the water at a discounted rate to the guys who come by with all the yellow
05:42jugs, like Mangala, those human water pipes can then deliver the water for a small profit,
05:47incentivizing them to deliver as much as they can to those who need it.
05:50And this way, all the money stays in their community.
05:53If they're not home, we could just leave it here, right?
05:57It's crazy that this fresh drinking water was just in the ocean yesterday.
06:02And now it's in their house, ready to use for anything.
06:04How many cans do you deliver a day?
06:06100.
06:06100?
06:07And you push all of them?
06:09I'm just sick to making YouTube videos.
06:11Speaking of which, I can't believe I'm doing this for a stupid YouTube video.
06:15It seems to be working.
06:17Oh gosh.
06:17Actually, more is coming out than I anticipated.
06:19Backup cup, hold on.
06:21You're sure this is going to work?
06:22Well, I didn't build it, but I believe the technology.
06:25Oh boy.
06:26It does look clear.
06:27That is a good sign.
06:28Moment of truth.
06:29I'm turning it off.
06:30That looks like pretty dang clear water.
06:32Oh boy.
06:34Smells like water.
06:35That's a good first sign.
06:36Why am I so nervous?
06:38Still smells like clean water.
06:40Now to be fair, my only saving grace here is that three minutes and 59 seconds.
06:44Later in this video, Mr. Beast is going to have to do something very similar.
06:47Oh boy.
06:47Okay, here we go.
06:50Does that have to be a big sip?
06:51It's a gulp.
06:52It's a gulp.
06:53Put it down.
06:54I never agreed to a gulp.
06:56Be brave.
06:56Be bold.
06:57Believe in engineering.
06:58Believe in science.
06:58Believe in a better way.
06:59It tastes like very fresh water.
07:07That is incredible.
07:08From this, it just leased out all the little pure water molecules.
07:13And now I'm feeling refreshed.
07:15So at one location, you make 70,000 liters a day.
07:18That's right.
07:19And everything we don't sell, we give away.
07:21Let's go.
07:22And this was actually my favorite part about everything they do.
07:25And it's something Ruthie mentioned when I got to ride along for one of these deliveries.
07:28So we choose schools and hospitals and children's orphanages, and we give all that water away.
07:36Hit it!
07:37The pump has started.
07:38And when speaking to the principal of one of those schools, the real impact of all this hit me.
07:55Okay, here we go.
07:56Because ever since their school started getting clean water deliveries,
08:00attendance has doubled because this is the only access to clean water they have.
08:04You want some more?
08:05And he said this means not only have so many of their stomach and health issues improved,
08:09but now they don't have to spend time every day fetching dirty water.
08:12So they have more time to attend school and invest in their future.
08:17And seeing these lovely fellow humans,
08:20who despite living on the other side of the planet,
08:22are so similar to us in so many ways,
08:25find such joy and appreciation for a simple fresh glass of water
08:29was a good reminder of what can happen when the power of engineering is used for good,
08:33even for something as basic as fresh, clean water.
08:37Okay, so you want me to pour my pee in that bucket?
08:40That's right.
08:41Oh my gosh, this is gross.
08:42It's for science.
08:42All right, Jimmy.
08:48Well, thanks to the power of reverse osmosis.
08:50Time has come.
08:51Oh my gosh.
08:52How are you feeling?
08:53If I taste any pee particles, I'm spitting this on you.
08:55How much do you believe in the science?
08:57Oh, you want to just do it?
08:58No, no, no, no.
08:59Before Jimmy drinks this, if you're watching this video,
09:02we need your help getting water purifying systems like this
09:05to kids and people who need it all over the world.
09:07So buckle up, because the next 30 days are going to be crazy.
09:10You might remember five years ago when we did Team Trees
09:12and we raised $20 million to plant 20 million trees.
09:15Huge success.
09:15So afterwards, we did Team Seas.
09:17We raised $30 million to pull 30 million pounds of trash out of the ocean.
09:20Also, huge success.
09:21Which brings us now here today to Team Water,
09:24where we have the insane, audacious goal to raise $40 million
09:27to give 2 million people all around the world clean water for decades.
09:31That means on average, every $1 we raise gives one human clean water for a year.
09:36What if I do 20 bucks?
09:37Bam, now it will last 20 years.
09:40Just using this machine?
09:41No.
09:41To scale this up and pull this off,
09:43we've been working with WaterAid because they're the best.
09:45They've been doing this for over 40 years.
09:47They've got a four-star charity navigator score,
09:49and they can make sure the clean water goes to 2 million people all across the world.
09:53But to do that, we need to raise $40 million,
09:55which truthfully, me and Mark Rober can't do on our own.
09:57Which is why we have all the biggest and smallest creators
09:59on every social media platform coming together
10:01to make content on Team Water to help us hit our $40 million goal.
10:05I'm so excited for Team Water.
10:06I'm in for Team Water.
10:08Team Water.
10:08Team Water.
10:09Team Water, let's do this.
10:11So join all your favorite creators on Team Water
10:12by watching and sharing all the Team Water content you see for the next month,
10:16and then by heading to teamwater.org
10:18and giving as much as you can afford right now.
10:20With all the division and doom and gloom online today,
10:23this is one of those rare moments
10:25where we all get to push in the same direction
10:27and do something really meaningful.
10:29It's a chance to prove the best parts
10:30that make us humans still exist in abundance,
10:33and that young people can be a catalyst
10:34for positive change in the world.
10:36I am so stoked.
10:37We totally got this.
10:39All right, Jimmy, no more stalling.
10:40Let's see it.
10:41Oh, gosh.
10:42I'm just going to close my eyes.
10:43Oh, interesting.
10:47Yeah, it tastes like clean water.
10:48Hashtag science.
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