How Sewage Becomes Drinking Water

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How do you make wastewater drinkable? It starts at the sewage treatment plant.
Ongoing droughts are straining the supply of clean drinking water. One solution might lie in an unexpected source: wastewater. Through a method of purification called reverse osmosis, Orange Country is making millions of gallons of dirty water drinkable again.
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  • @thomaslentz8209
    @thomaslentz8209 Жыл бұрын

    That's what I do for a living! Reverse osmosis is the key! You can also turn sea/salt water into safe drinking water!

  • @ciddyboy718

    @ciddyboy718

    7 ай бұрын

    Giant cruise ships do it all the time.

  • @Woodcliff14

    @Woodcliff14

    5 ай бұрын

    Is it interesting work?

  • @sarahdiane24

    @sarahdiane24

    4 ай бұрын

    What is your job called

  • @dertythegrower

    @dertythegrower

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@sarahdiane24Water Engineer 😅

  • @Iz0pen

    @Iz0pen

    17 күн бұрын

    @@sarahdiane24 pi55 engineer

  • @ChatMania487
    @ChatMania487 Жыл бұрын

    I wish that they would have explained the purpose of the aeration better. Adding oxygen allows bacteria to quickly use up the nutrients in the water. This has two purposes: it reduces biological contamination by removing bio waste. But it also makes it safer to return the water to rivers and oceans. Natural water systems would be thrown off balance with such a large influx of nutrients, causing such problems as algal booms, or deprivation of oxygen by bacteria that are eating up the nutrients and using up all the O2, suffocating other life. Which makes me wonder why California has been simply dumping waste in the ocean when they are ostensibly the most environmentally minded state, when other states have been aerating waste water.

  • @asan1050
    @asan1050 Жыл бұрын

    THANKSMUCH !

  • @troy3456789
    @troy3456789 Жыл бұрын

    You get an excellent lesson in how it works with a wastewater license class. It's really very cool how it works.

  • @PaulHo
    @PaulHo Жыл бұрын

    Born and bred in Orange County, when I visit people from other states they think it's wild that I'll ask them for tap water.

  • @0ttselChops
    @0ttselChops4 ай бұрын

    You'll drink the poo water, and you'll like it.

  • @BuckshotsSmokeLounge

    @BuckshotsSmokeLounge

    2 ай бұрын

    Yup

  • @aaronwhager

    @aaronwhager

    2 ай бұрын

    yea man, wtf

  • @ashgaming6795

    @ashgaming6795

    12 күн бұрын

    Forget poo we all end up in one another after nature recycles us over a long period of time. Calcium, Phosphorus, carbon, hydrogen all of it will be recycled.

  • @GoodVibesOnly1914
    @GoodVibesOnly19145 ай бұрын

    This is why i went to great lengths to have well water from an area with no runoff

  • @ribukesh3844
    @ribukesh38442 ай бұрын

    That dirty water affects sea living and environment?

  • @partdeux992
    @partdeux992 Жыл бұрын

    this thing doesn't get rid of prescription drugs cleanly does it?

  • @Anne_Onymous

    @Anne_Onymous

    Жыл бұрын

    Shut up and drink your poo water!

  • @EatDrinkBeMerry

    @EatDrinkBeMerry

    Жыл бұрын

    It says it does. The reverse osmosis process filters down to the water molecule level.

  • @user-dc1dr9kr8x

    @user-dc1dr9kr8x

    Жыл бұрын

    Great question....keep asking them please

  • @bhatkat

    @bhatkat

    Жыл бұрын

    @@EatDrinkBeMerry Yup, filters have gotten so good they can separate alcohol and water now, large meds molecules would be no problem.

  • @dertythegrower

    @dertythegrower

    Ай бұрын

    depends on the RO system... many cannot. The ones Purina and Cocacola amd (Water War Nestle) are massively bigger than a home RO one or three stahe

  • @josephpiskac2781
    @josephpiskac2781 Жыл бұрын

    What about the big ocean next door?

  • @muffindolphindaphnee

    @muffindolphindaphnee

    Жыл бұрын

    It requires more energy to convert salt water into drinking water, which is more expensive especially the US and Cali

  • @josephpiskac2781

    @josephpiskac2781

    Жыл бұрын

    @@muffindolphindaphnee Sunlight is free? It seems solar distillation offers greater capacity than reverse osmosis filters?

  • @dertythegrower

    @dertythegrower

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@josephpiskac2781buddy, no.. 😆

  • @MarquisTheCoder-sr6wq
    @MarquisTheCoder-sr6wq4 ай бұрын

    This is really great just don’t tell me if I’m drinking reclaimed water

  • @Tis_I_SirJames
    @Tis_I_SirJames Жыл бұрын

    I heard it's very possible that we're drinking the same water that people thousands of years ago have drank. Think about that.

  • @simplysavvy0113

    @simplysavvy0113

    4 ай бұрын

    Even more intriguing to consider that water has "memory" ! Imagine what it's capable of holding and transferring !

  • @zeitgeist7788

    @zeitgeist7788

    18 күн бұрын

    Well, of course because Earth has only a certain amount of water. And that goes through the 'water cycle' over and over again for centuries even when dinosaurs were alive.

  • @bhatkat
    @bhatkat Жыл бұрын

    Nothing really new in that the sun distills all the rain we get, we have always been drinking recycled dinosaur pee.

  • @nicolenew1708
    @nicolenew17089 ай бұрын

    SUPER COOL

  • @dr.m.hfuhruhurr84
    @dr.m.hfuhruhurr84 Жыл бұрын

    & then companies like the Tennessee Valley Authority & Enron© show up to improve things?

  • @xpozen8994
    @xpozen89947 ай бұрын

    "Modern" life style where one drinks sewage water and genetically altered foods.

  • @Iz0pen
    @Iz0penАй бұрын

    F that! N O !!!

  • @l0g1cseer47
    @l0g1cseer47 Жыл бұрын

    Why not simply steam the water and distilled and condensed back with minerals.. Would that not be more practicable? Anyways, great water sustainable recovery solution.. Thank you for sharing.

  • @tctk1

    @tctk1

    Жыл бұрын

    Steam takes a TON of energy to produce in large volumes

  • @l0g1cseer47

    @l0g1cseer47

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tctk1 use the solar panels to do the heating which already a well known functional and practicable in many 30°c to 35°c countries. With climate change that is more likely scenario..

  • @tctk1

    @tctk1

    Жыл бұрын

    @@l0g1cseer47 climate change doesn't mean more sunlight. Temperature differences don't mean more sunlight. Secondly the cost benefit ratio of solar for that is insane. Solar isn't as efficient as you're assuming it is. Also I'm a waste water operator.. So take my word for my career

  • @l0g1cseer47

    @l0g1cseer47

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tctk1 the waste water tissue filtration represents a major risk of health concern to individual like you at more risk of danger. And it is for everyone benefits to understand that what I am indicating is much more sensible solution to prevent further more risk to human population.

  • @adammuncy8475

    @adammuncy8475

    7 ай бұрын

    I see it more as a combination system. Reverse Osmosis is expensive due to the amount of pressure needed to force the water through the membranes. You could prefilter with larger micron filters that remove heavier particles but allow smaller ones through. Then you could utilize the deserts to focus sunlight to a focused point that then reflects down onto a greenhouse with a pipe at the top for the vapor distillation.

  • @djayjp
    @djayjp Жыл бұрын

    1:32 Yeah that definitely looks clean....

  • @troy3456789

    @troy3456789

    Жыл бұрын

    It really is very clean by the time it finishes being processed. Most of it is accomplished by bacteria and bugs. It requires constant monitoring, documentation and constant adjustment to get the output water clean. The two main causes of problems in a wastewater system is chemicals that kill bacteria and "I&I" (inflow and infiltration) by rainwater.

  • @djayjp

    @djayjp

    Жыл бұрын

    @@troy3456789 How do you explain the green, horrible looking appearance then...?

  • @troy3456789

    @troy3456789

    Жыл бұрын

    @@djayjp That does look horrible and it is not the natural outcome of wastewater treatment plants. I am not sure why they chose that bit of video to show viewers. It looks like California is attempting to do something that hardly anyone else is doing: that is to pipe the output of treatment plants directly back into the freshwater drinking supply.

  • @sleepy4149

    @sleepy4149

    Жыл бұрын

    @@djayjp how dumb are you they said they used to send it miles of coast untreated while they showed that so I’m more then positive that’s illustrated how it used to be not now

  • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192

    @goldenageofdinosaurs7192

    Жыл бұрын

    @@djayjp You probably shouldn’t make judgements when you have little to no idea what’s being done. Nobody says that water was potable, only clean enough to be released. Do the Mississippi or Amazon rivers look crystal clear when they run into the ocean? Of course not. I’d pretty much guarantee that water being released is significantly cleaner than the water from a major river. Your brain is the end point of nearly 4 billion years of evolution. You should use it to think past, “Well, it looks kinda dirty…”

  • @NonBinary_Star
    @NonBinary_Star Жыл бұрын

    3min long??? 😩

  • @SirGriefALot
    @SirGriefALot Жыл бұрын

    That's disgusting. 🤢🤮🤮 I would pay more for non "recycled" water.

  • @sleepy4149

    @sleepy4149

    Жыл бұрын

    All water is recycled at some point I guess you never learned about the water cycle 😂

  • @EatDrinkBeMerry
    @EatDrinkBeMerry Жыл бұрын

    Couldn’t help but to cringe when he drank that water at the end.

  • @adlibruj

    @adlibruj

    Жыл бұрын

    R.I.P.

  • @naturalvee67

    @naturalvee67

    Жыл бұрын

    Why? It's safe enough to drink.

  • @EatDrinkBeMerry

    @EatDrinkBeMerry

    Жыл бұрын

    @@naturalvee67 I’d drink it, too. But the idea is wild.

  • @MrWeird-mu5ul

    @MrWeird-mu5ul

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@EatDrinkBeMerryUnless you like to drink contaminated water from other places.

  • @audiofactory3058

    @audiofactory3058

    Ай бұрын

    We All Drink This Water at Home

  • @CambridgeArtz
    @CambridgeArtz Жыл бұрын

    "Don't pooh-pooh this water"....*ME- looks like someone already did it for me! *Rimshot*

  • @RUNNOFT71
    @RUNNOFT7110 ай бұрын

    Dear god no

  • @susanyeh4423
    @susanyeh44234 ай бұрын

    Disgusting idea, why not let the animals to drink it first.or use it to flush the toilet or use it to water the crop and plants.

  • @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245
    @cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 Жыл бұрын

    Now if only we can figure out how to remove salt from ocean water, and we’ll stay hydrated

  • @sleepy4149

    @sleepy4149

    Жыл бұрын

    We know how just not profitable

  • @Metacognition88
    @Metacognition88 Жыл бұрын

    Drinking water? Eewwww. All I drink is soda

  • @BajanNatureMysticDolt

    @BajanNatureMysticDolt

    6 ай бұрын

    All I drink is monster.

  • @winningsidewinningside703
    @winningsidewinningside7036 ай бұрын

    AWFUL!!!

  • @Thewhitewarrior
    @Thewhitewarrior2 ай бұрын

    I’m gonna be sick🤢

  • @yaosio
    @yaosio Жыл бұрын

    Very inappropriate music. Very badly made video as well. Try again.

  • @YmgBandz
    @YmgBandz3 ай бұрын

    India needs this 😂😂😂😂

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