I used to be a tour guide in Chicago and my favorite thing was teaching locals stuff they didn't know! You should definitely hit up one of the tourist tours cuz you'll learn so much
You might want to add $Thanks to your video pages. It goes on the "like dislike share download clip save" bar. Be sure to allow visitors and viewers to also set their own amounts (not just fixed amounts). I liked your note about reversing the river. And see a video advertised "How Chicago Reversed Its River: An Animated History" which might give some of that. Your note about California surprised me. I expect we will see more and more modular nuclear plants providing heat, pumping, and electricity for desalination. When high cost of water and electricity drives people and corporations away, at some point that becomes economic. Plus there are LOTS of companies and countries realizing the old "atomic energy" "too cheap to meter" and "the peaceful atom". Rather burn atoms safely than massive pollution from coal and oil. Especially since boiling water to drive turbines wastes more than half the energy. Boiling water with nuclear power always seemed so stupid, since I first saw it up close in 1975 when I worked briefly at Detroit Edison on Fermi II plant. Fermi I was sodium cooled and that technology could be adapted to direct nuclear to electric methods. Oh well. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
I think Glencoe or some adjacent town has won the best tasting tap water award multiple times (however the hell that is judged or if it’s at all legit).
My great great grandmother single handedly dug the entire tunnel to 2-mile crib. She was paid 2 polishes with grilled onions per hour. She also invented the crib walk and made sure to keep it gangsta at all times.
The climate change stuff at the end was a jarring contrast to your seemingly fact based videos. It’s just as likely that climate change will inundate areas, we really don’t know. It’s going to be a problem, we just aren’t sure what kind of problem. I like your videos so far, but that off handed bit at the end makes me wonder about the rigor of your facts in the other areas I don’t know anything about. Just my opinion, it’s your absolute right to do what you like in your videos.
Chicago gets it's water from bubbly Creek actually on the bottom of water bubbly Creek we're sits in a settlement the pipes and people suck it in like a straw
Wow 31 years in Chicago and I did not know this. Great work, it’s surprising how much we take all this for granted.
I used to be a tour guide in Chicago and my favorite thing was teaching locals stuff they didn't know! You should definitely hit up one of the tourist tours cuz you'll learn so much
You’ve never looked out the lake and seen the cribs? They always fascinated me as kid (and still do actually).
I’d never heard of water cribs before, very informative. Great vid!
grew up here always wondered what that was next to navy pier. super intresting video well done man.
Chicago water is delicious
Dude, I wish I would've found this channel sooner. You have very well made videos
And the water taste good.
I'm in Bartlett, NW corner of DuPage county. We just switched over to Chicago processed water a couple of years ago.
Worked at montrose as a lifeguard, i wonder if thats the object ive always seen in the distance away from me.
Well informed video, good job 👏
Great Vid!!! Can you do an update on the Colorado River water height now?
great video!
Excellent video. Who knew!
My Mother works at the Jardine water plant. Largest in the world.
You might want to add $Thanks to your video pages. It goes on the "like dislike share download clip save" bar. Be sure to allow visitors and viewers to also set their own amounts (not just fixed amounts). I liked your note about reversing the river. And see a video advertised "How Chicago Reversed Its River: An Animated History" which might give some of that.
Your note about California surprised me. I expect we will see more and more modular nuclear plants providing heat, pumping, and electricity for desalination. When high cost of water and electricity drives people and corporations away, at some point that becomes economic. Plus there are LOTS of companies and countries realizing the old "atomic energy" "too cheap to meter" and "the peaceful atom". Rather burn atoms safely than massive pollution from coal and oil. Especially since boiling water to drive turbines wastes more than half the energy. Boiling water with nuclear power always seemed so stupid, since I first saw it up close in 1975 when I worked briefly at Detroit Edison on Fermi II plant. Fermi I was sodium cooled and that technology could be adapted to direct nuclear to electric methods. Oh well.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
I think Glencoe or some adjacent town has won the best tasting tap water award multiple times (however the hell that is judged or if it’s at all legit).
My great great grandmother single handedly dug the entire tunnel to 2-mile crib. She was paid 2 polishes with grilled onions per hour. She also invented the crib walk and made sure to keep it gangsta at all times.
Make sure you test that water before you drink it. The inside of those pipes is filthy and you need to filter it before you drink it
I never knew thats y that was there I always see them I did not know the purpose of them
The climate change stuff at the end was a jarring contrast to your seemingly fact based videos. It’s just as likely that climate change will inundate areas, we really don’t know. It’s going to be a problem, we just aren’t sure what kind of problem. I like your videos so far, but that off handed bit at the end makes me wonder about the rigor of your facts in the other areas I don’t know anything about. Just my opinion, it’s your absolute right to do what you like in your videos.
2:52: That's 8 cribs --- not 9.
Buffalo New York water is from Lake Erie.
But they didn't have the technology 150 years ago to build these "cribs".
The great lakes region might become an attractive place to settle as climate change reeks havoc on the sun belt
Return of the rust belt.
Add $Thanks!
Lake Michigan...maybe...lol.
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Chicago gets it's water from bubbly Creek actually on the bottom of water bubbly Creek we're sits in a settlement the pipes and people suck it in like a straw
The water is drying up because of population increases - more people need more water. Climagte change is not the reason.
Yup, to many people chased the sunshine and not the water...
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