Jerusalem – The water at the mikveh (ritual bath) of Pisgat Ze’ev in Jerusalem will soon be recycled thanks to an advanced system, the first of its kind in Israel. The move is expected to save more than a million gallons of water a year.
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The experimental recycling program has just recently received the approval of the Health Ministry, which stipulates that the water at a mikveh must be changed once a day.
If it succeeds, 35 other mikvehs across Jerusalem will soon be recycling their water as well, which will save more than 26 million gallons as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
The new filtering and purification system will treat the water each day and then return them to the bath. It will also facilitate online checks of the water’s quality. In Pisgat Ze’ev, Health Ministry officials will supervise the purification process for six months before the system is introduced in other baths.
The system will give the ministry additional tools for inspecting the quality of water at mikvehs throughout the city. In addition, the Pisgat Ze’ev trial has been coordinated with the city’s religious council and will respect halachic rulings.
It is no different than any swimming pool. The water is the same throughout the summer. There is a filtering system. Period. There is a need to have a halachally approved filtering system, other than that it is a regular filter. The water is much cleaner than what we drink or what comes in through the faucets.
Happens to be that the water in women’s mikvaos is crystal clear even with no filter and infrequent changing. This is because the women toivel after a rigorous cleansing process (chafifah) and don’t walk around barefoot in the mikvah…
I thought they already recyle the Mikvah vaser because at a Jerusalem hotel’s Pesach Seder this elderly gentlemen took one sip of the soup and said Mikvah vaser.