According to WQOW.com, an enterprising Wisconsin dairy farmer named John is making clean drinking water from his cows’ poop. Here’s a fun little factoid from the article:

• John Vrieze says every single day the cows on his St. Croix County dairy farm produce 50,000 gallons of manure and waste. That's more than the average backyard swimming pool.

Good to know! Farmer John says the water made from all that manure is cleaner than treated municipal wastewater, which makes sense since he’s using a similar process. Man, a farmer gleaning drinking water from his overwhelming stores of cow crap – now that’s an Original Maverick, only less cool and more revolting. And probably more helpful in the long run.