Why did they do this overly conflated system? Why not just boil a big vat of water and turn it into steam, pump the steam to another tank where it will condense and then you just scrape the gunk out of the bottom and the heat kills all the possible viruses ECT. Can a virus even survive on a super hot steam particle?
@@TheAnnoyingBoss While I agree that distilling the water also works, and is nearly bulletproof from a safety standpoint, the energy requirements to boil and cool that volume of water would be massive; we generally flow 5 million gallons or so per day, and we only serve about 70K consumer points (IE: households, not individuals).
We need answers. Please someone confirm this because I’ve been using water bottles and some taste weird. Tap water taste good but can’t take chances due to my immune system
@@MrFrhnba I would suggest taking a sample from your tap and having it tested (And not by the door to door sales folks that want to test your water to sell you a filter system). In some environments, it is possible to have roots break into pipes and possibly contaminate water, while still allowing the pipe not to leak due to the way hydrodynamics can work. You could also call your water provider and ask for input on getting a sample tested as well. They would likely want to get something like that fixed ASAP if that were the case. That being said, it could also be the plumbing of the house that is affected, not necessarily the line from the water provider...
Can i ask why the treated wastewater and untreated water cant share the same water system? or he says in the video they almost never share the same water system. and also assuming that the water purification plant is in a lake where fish may be how does this affect them? i am doing an assignment on clean drinking water and your feedback would be extremely helpful
ive worked in waste water treatment for about 17 years, and have never seen a step by step of how the magic happens so clean and well thought out. this needs to be in every sydney water office as a base to their inductions. amazing stuff. you have gained +1 sub
I’m a water engineer for a city that provides water for 7-10M people (through city services and customer cities which are cities that buy water from other cities instead of treating it themselves) and I can tell you this is pretty accurate. I do have a few comments: 1. The lake is typically not on site and is usually pulled through a network of pipes. 2. In the coagulation, typically an iron coagulant is used. 2. The injection of ozone is one of the most expensive processes in water treatment because ozone is typically produced on site for larger cities, which requires TONS of electricity. This is just a fun fact. 3. I didn’t see him touch on chlorination prior to injection into the public use system. Bacteria can develop in older pipes so some chlorination is added to prevent harmful bacteria from traveling through the pipe network.
I'm a water plant operator and we almost strictly use chlorination. Some of our smaller unmanned plants use Sodium Hypochlorite, but most (including the one I am currently manning) use chlorine gas. UV is still kind of being phased in simply because we don't really have any way of knowing whether it truly works in disinfecting as we don't use any means of testing it. We rely on chlorination.
The amount of detail in this video, be it the animation or the voice over is just phenomenal. The video reflects the amount of hardwork the creator has put in. I wish you reach millions of followers soon and the world appreciates your content.
Wow, this was remarkably accurate without drowning the viewer in unneeded details. These processes are crucial all over the world and we can never let up on doing them right.
As a wastewater operator this is a great video for those inquisitive individuals who always wondered what happens to water before and after their sink/shower/toilet. Great Job y'all!!! Thank you for this video! I'm referencing this video as a teaching aid!
Would love to see something like this for trash processing. I know there is a lot of variation depending on where you go but knowing what's "normal" would be nice.
Excellent work. This is one example of an array of options to treat water. In the US, if the source water is surface water or E. Coli-contaminated groundwater, a “residual disinfectant “ is required which is not shown (such as addition of chlorine or chloramine).
bro you're a beast. these videos are insane. i could only imagine the amount of planning, research, and animation editing it takes to make one of these! you should make another car one! maybe the hvac system in a car, suspension system, transmission systems, drivetrain/differential system, braking system, power steering system! p.s i am uploading my next big video tomorrow and i voiced over some of your graphic work threw your website in the description as well. keep it up mate!
:D Always glad to see you in the comments, Buddy, and I'll check out your new vid to see how you were inspired to use my work! I like the sense of community, really makes it more worth it to be creating this stuff.
@@animagraffs should be out 2 pm tomorrow!! And yeah man you're comment section has alot of good feedback. That's how you know your channel will grow brother 💪
Bruh, I studied Civil Engineering in college and I remember taking Water Resources lecture/lab. At that time, I had a fairly decent knowledge of how this works and can somewhat explain the overall process, but you just helped me understand it even more. You literally gave me the bigger picture while handling the smaller details in a non-overwhelming fashion. Holy shit. Awesome fucking job.
abbreviated version - "If you live in New Orleans, St Louis or Baltimore and DC, the glass of water you are drinking has already been in and passed through seven people." Great video! I spent years upgrading, pouring concrete and expanding the Charlotte Mecklenburg NC water purification and wastewater cleaning plants. I gladly drink tap water daily from our kitchen sink and enjoy it without fear and without plastic bottle waste. The LORD is great and I am 62 and have no liver or kidney or digestive trouble. My mom is 92, has done the same and has no problems with our CM water system. Her problem is soda pop and fritos.
What's your opinion on the supposed abundance amount of chlorine and and fluoride in the water. While it's still relatively small, overtime usage of it can't be good right?
I went on a school field trip to the local water treatment plant. That was 1981. 5 the grade. To this day I remember it as the best field trip I ever went on. I was just amazed at how it all worked and learned so much. Every other field trip was a vacation from learning.
you forgot about the denitrification which comes after this step 10:05 (nitrifiacation= O²+ NH³ or NH4+ -> NO³-) . the denitrification is where nitrate(NO³-) will be broken apart to nitrogen gas(N²) and other endproducts.... it needs to be anaerobic(no Oxygen is present) otherwise the desolved oxygen(O²) will be used instead, of the microorganisms. this step is quite important because otherwise the NO³- gets into rivers and lakes, which acts as a furtaliser und encreases the algae growth.
Love these videos. Always to the point easy to understand. So many videos have obnoxious narrators always begging for more subs and "Remember to click that bell!" I don't need anyone "reminding" me to subscribe. If a video's quality can speak for itself, then you've earned my sub, and the first animagraff I watched months ago earned you my sub. Keep up the fantastic work!
Very accurate description, down to the correct terminology. I'm a water treatment plant operator. We still use chlorination for disinfection, though UV is used in a lot of wastewater treatment plants, Ozone is used in a lot of water treatment plants for pretreatment to rid raw water of organic material. Great animation.
@@dannydaw59 mate, I did that job for 7 years. The floculated sludge from the clarrifiers has to go somewhere; usually drying beds or a screw press or belt press. In the case of drying beds, you wait until the access moisture drains and re-enters the start of the process, then its shovel time. It sounds worse than it is. By the shovelling stage, its more like ashy dirt. We call it 'cake'. its light and has lost its smell thanks to the nitro bacta disolving the ammonia into nitrogen in the aeration tanks. Old mate mentioned that it is used for fertilizer but thats illegal in australia. We send it to landfill - which sounds bad - but its highly nitrified organic matter so the earth loves it. I work with drinking (potable) water now but waste water is way more fun and technical.
I originally found this channel by looking up how antique mechanical pocket watches work. So far, I have watched every one of your videos and subscribed with notifications. I love this kind of content that shows how things work. I am a visual and hands-on type of learner, and just reading about something and looking at pictures does not click for me. I have to be able to see it in action to properly get a grasp of it, and your videos help me do just that. Thanks for this amazing content and I hope you can continue to do this. I do not know the reason as to why you make these videos, but for whatever it may be, don't make yourself hate doing it by doing it too much to where it is like a job. Go at your own pace and do what you like. :D
Yes, this is my first Animagraff experience. Who is this person who takes the time and care to research and create these? What a resource! Is it altruism or the curiosity about these subjects that propels this work?
I once went on a tour in a water recycling plant. We got to see the input and output. The difference was so amazing, especially since it started off quite brown and ended up completely clear.
I'd ask you to post more, cause these videos are addicting af, but just imagining the amount of work it takes to just make one I get why you can't. Amazing work, really captivating!
I was thinking the same thing 😂. I want more but the amount and quality of information and animation makes me feel bad about asking or making suggestions. I hope he's making enough money or will in the future from these.
I actually always wondered how water treatment plants worked, but never searched for it. This now solves it, and in a visually beautiful and well explained video.
I used to love going with my dad to the treatment plants. My dad had a supervisory role so he would just monitor everything and make adjustments if someone missed them, audits, etc. He let me do a lot of fun shit behind those gates. I learned how to operate a backhoe around 9 or 10 years old. That shit wouldn’t fly at all in modern times.
Well in theory this should get rid of all of the pollutants in the water but it does not when you actually check the faucet water. Likely due to just huge amount of volume of water which can't be filtered adequately by the city system, or it accurate toxins in the pipes.
It's interesting to see the different modes of treatment implemented in slightly different ways than I learned (i.e. in my Environmental ENG class most active carbons, rocks, and microsands were at the inlet or just after the inlet in drinking water treatment, and the bacteria were introduced in the sedimentation tanks instead of separate aeration tanks for waste water treatment). Many ways to skin a cat and all that.
Really great video! Another important thing to mention is that many times the water going back into the river after treatment is actually cleaner than the river water itself.
Great video. As a retired water purification plant operator of 40 years. Your description shows the actiflo process of coagulation.. My plant used it and conventional basin type of coagulation then ozonation and filtration. Since a disinfectant residual must be in the water as it leaves the plant, we used chlorimination to do so just before the clear well. Also fluoride was added just before the clear well and any other ph and alkalinity adjusting chemicals.
I grew up drinking water directly from the stream fed by mountain melting snow and pooping into a pit in the ground. It is impressive how "development" complicated so much these simple basic functions... Excellent instructional video!
Hi. I've been feeling quite bad about myself over the past year, having just gotten out of a terrible 3 year work cycle / rut that had me basically enslaved to my freelance job. I finished my work and am taking time off to recover. One thing i was always interested in is learning how the world works in the most basic sense. Infastructure, city systems, urban design, econ, shipping, how stuff gets around and moves and how modern society functions mechanically. This video was absolutely excellent. I saved it. If you do one on electricity and electrical grid, or airports, or anything in that vein, know you'll have at least one viewer :)
Engaging, informative, easy-on-the-eye, good to listen to! I really enjoyed this. I didn't know I needed to know how it all works, but I'm glad the youtube algorithm told me I did.
Wow man , such detailed work. Couldn't stop myself from subscribing. Amazed at the technology behind the water we drink and water treatment. Glad to live in a generation of technology
There is so much to be thankful for. This water system filtration is just one of the many things we should be thankful for. Imagine living in a time where this is not a convenience. How horrible that would be. Thank you Engineers and people behind this magic.
I always wondered how water got purified and what they did with waste water. Now I know! This truly was amazing! I look forward to more things like this!
I can't believe how much I've learned from your very few videos. The graphics are beautiful and the topics are explained so even a dummy like me can follow along, You need to make more of these!
Very good I am a retired wastewater treatment plant operator of 27 years Iona in Vancouver bc You could make a second video On the digestion of the solids removed Their are 2 types of Digestion Aerobic Aerobic treatment Is basically a tank of solids where they pump oxygen to feed the bacteria that eat the solid organic waste Anaerobic digestion has the benefit Of methane We use 2 types of bacteria 1 acid formers They break down the waist 2 methane formers they eat the waist of the acid formers And produce methane and some CO2 If it’s off can produce hydrogen sulphide a very caustic gas Turns to hydrochloric acid when in contact with water Why your nose and lungs burn When exposed Now with the methane Their a few options Methane is basically the same as natural gas Now at Iona we have 5 large Cogeneration units Converted cat Diesel engines Now we get 2 products from the cogens 1 Heat we use to heat the digesters The bacteria is basically from our gut and intestine so it ideally should be heated to 37c Body temperature The rest of the heat can be dumped or heated the plant in general 2 thing we get from the cogens Is electricity 5 cogens We try and run at least 4 or 3 depending on the gas levels we are producing And if all the cogens are actually running They need lots of maintenance I have always maintained We should have installed boilers and run steam turbines Much more efficient And way less moving parts to wear out The extra electricity we produced go to the grid Helps to power the city In the summer we is far less power than in the rainy seasons
Great video. I work in one of the biggest wastewater treatment plants in the world and naturally there's a ton more going on than described but for the general public this would be a great video to describe what's going on.
How accurate is this video? What dies he miss? How big are these facilities? How cost effective is it? How many personnel are required to run it? Are there test done before water is released to the public/back into nature?
Have you considered having collabotative videos with some other channels? Like, "How does a sky-scraper work" with Fred from The B1M, some civil infrastructure with Grady from Pratical Engineering, how various firearms work, with Ian McCollum at Forgotten Weapons, etc. The guest could maybe interact in some way with your animations as they explain how it works? I hope your channel keeps growing! Cheers!
It’s interesting seeing the difference between this and my plant. We use lime softening so our process is quite different. Chlorinate the raw water, add lime and ferric/ammonia if needed into a basin. Then the water goes through an ozone chamber and c02 is added. Then to a filter and off to the vessels it goes where it’s filtered for TOC and color. At the very end we add extra chlorine/ammonia/ fluoride where it sits in our tanks before going out into the PWS. Cool video and well done.
I was wondering how the water treatment works. Thank you for making this video! I will share this to the teachers. The kids need to watch this. Keep making good videos.
Last year we organized a visit to a water purification plant. I wasn't able to attend in the end, so I'm thankful for this video explaining everything in details with amazing graphics. Thank you so much, incredible work as always!
Wonderful work. I knew literally nothing about waste water treatment before watching this. I have more recently become very interested in learning how in the world the treatment/purification processes work to handle the range of human waste, including blood and phlegm, etc) Yuck! Thank you for your graphics and narration . This is a fantastic study guide.
Hey dude. I really appreciate the godly animations and the astronomical explaining. I can tell it takes a lot of hard work and you probably are squeezing in the time to do these videos and I really appreciate it. I have a special request. Next can you do how a fridge works? Thanks for explaining very well and doing the research for us. I find it so amazing how you take so much research, and put it into amazing animations that people take ~15 minutes to watch. You are da beast. Keep the hard work up and I am so happy your in this world.
What people don't realize is waste water is ONLY water that goes down a toilet or drain inside of a home. Storm drains in the curbs of streets bypasses any kind of treatment plant and goes directly into lakes or rivers. Which means people who let engine oil/ antifreeze/ soap/ salt/ dead animals/ cigarette butts, etc. go down the drain on the side of the street. That all goes directly into the nearest open body of water.
This channel is amazing. Love the most recent video on 18th century ships. Keep up the good work, thank you for teaching me so much! My mind has been blown many times, seeing just how much goes into some things.
I live on a small island in Canada where it rains a lot and we have a well. I once went to a friends house off island and was shocked to find out that they paid for water just like with electricity and such. I feel so bad for taking my usual long comfortable shower there.
Gorgeous video and clear explanation. People should know how hard is to get potable water and that it is important to save water, rather than use it limitless and consider pure water as for granted.
You're a damn genius with animation and video creation. Hope you have an amazing career. Saw the first video and instantly said, "this guy has a lot of talent".
Worked at quite a few of these plants as an inside wireman and boy some of them are very clean for what they are, and some of them are absolutely disgusting. The 2nd one I was at I'd constantly get rashes on my arms and one day I was throwing up violently all over the jobsite. The other ones were as clean as poo can be! Also hear a guy 2 hours north drowned in one of the tanks a while back. I'd imagine that's the worst way to go. You can't swim or float in those tanks they take you straight to the bottom.
Here in the Phoenix area, we have an extensive canal system (thought not as extensive as it used to be) which, in some locations, also serves as a way to discharge waste water from these plants since any added ammonia or anything is actually useful for the farmers who use that water. It can also be sent down drainage canals, which ultimate discharge into natural washes or water ways, or it can be discharged into a catch basin and allows to soak into the ground to join the water in the aquifer. Some locations also use a separate piping system to use this reclaimed water for irrigation of city landscaping.
Wonderful video! I worked for a combined Authority (water and waste water). Though the system you described is not the same as what I operated, your description has absolutely flaws! I preferred running the Sewage Treatment end. Far more complex in that you had to coddle the digestive bacteria and keep them alive and active even when your upstream clients would do fun things to your plant like dumping gasoline, paint, polymers and other fun stuff.
Public drinking water is one of the most underrated parts of civil society. It often costs metered users less than a penny per gallon in the U.S. and there are many ways to get it for free. For most of human history, access to clean drinking water was out of the question, or sporadic at best. Everyone should have a right to clean, publicly supplied water.
I usually dont leave many comments but holy shit your channel is amazing! The animations are fantastic and the script is easy to follow and well narrated. Keep it up!
I used to work in a gold processing mill. We used a clarifier as well. "Preg" (water pregnant with gold particles) would flow over the top and would be combined with zinc, in a vacuum, to recover the gold.
Thank You Sir. With your videos we better understand how things works. Even more we can appreciate now the people who created/ manufactured such things.
this is a great video and thank you for it. However; it does Not mention the added chlorine and other chemicals to add or take off certain tastes in drinking city water?
He does mention some plants chlorinate in the video. The plant I work at uses chlorine for sure. However it was my understanding that all potable water in the U.S. must have a chlorine residual.
I have no possible relatable way for me to interact with such topic, yet, I watched the whole thing and now I'm wondering about what the other models are like. Goes to show how good of a video it is, the graphics, pace and explanation was awesome!
I just discovered your videos today and have to say these are on par with any learning videos I've seen. My only critique would be to work on the intro and outro especially. A conclusion statement to me would cap off all the great narration for the project. At any rate thank you to you and your team for all the hard work and look forward to seeing what's next.
Our city is old, and in places has a combined wastewater - storm drain system. I've seen things in the wastewater collection well after a heavy rain that you wouldn't believe, including tree branches, footballs, and dead animals.
Very good Informative Video but I worked at a Wastewater Treatment Plant and seen a lot of them, though never seen UV-Treatment at the end or those Nozzles for better mix after that, maybe not used much in my Country(Germany). For Those which are Interested in Wastewater Treatment: The Sludge from the 1.st Sedimentation Stage "can" be used as Fertilizer but is mostly expenively burned in Trash Incineration Plants mostly because of the Heavy Metals residing in it, also on most bigger Wastewater Treatment Plants the Sludge gets Fermented to get Gas, this Gas can be used to fuel Generators, which produce Energy for the Plant to use (Main Purpose is to reduce Mass). In the Aerination (Correct Word: Nitrification / Denitrification) are 2 Zones, not 1 as it may be interpreted, Nitrification uses Oxigen, Denitrification does not. There would be some Details that can be added but I wanted to clarify these especially. (If you have questions I try to answer them if I can)
My father owned a carbon mill that provided carbon for municipalities for the final filtration process for taste and odor control. He started it on a five way partnership of 10 grand each to get it up and running. He bought out his partners and sold to Calgon for millions and retired at 50 years old. I was a millwright and enjoyed the experience from start to end.
6:09 "The water is now ready for public consumption". No it's not. If you pump that water out as is, it is going to destroy your pipes. You need to balance the calcium and the iron dissolved in the water first.
Thank you for this well-paced educational video! I would love to see an addendum... A passion of mine over the last several years has been wastewater recycling, essentially creating a closed loop municipal water system as opposed to open-ended model like you represented. The environmental impact of these plants is significant, especially in arid climates, with 20-30% reductions on water source taxation. Encouraging their implementation is one of many noble and necessary steps towards sustainability and I would love to enlist your help in popularizing their use! Don't hesitate to share your thoughts, hesitations, and ambitions. I'm here for all of it!
Most of the big cities add chlorine at the end of the process just in case.You know there is always a chance to contamination after leaving the processing place
In Singapore, wastewater is treated and put back into the main water supply. It's called NEWater. Our country is too small and we don't have enough reservoirs. That's why we have to do this.
This is an exceptionally well done educational video with absolutely perfect animations -- not overdone but definitely highly illustrative. What animation software are you using and could I get a rough idea on the number of hours needed to produce it? I'm looking at Blender and need an idea of the work involved for some science based videos I'm working on. Again, really impressive work...
I work for a water/wastewater processing company. 100% can confirm this is accurate. Excellent video.
Why did they do this overly conflated system? Why not just boil a big vat of water and turn it into steam, pump the steam to another tank where it will condense and then you just scrape the gunk out of the bottom and the heat kills all the possible viruses ECT. Can a virus even survive on a super hot steam particle?
@@TheAnnoyingBoss While I agree that distilling the water also works, and is nearly bulletproof from a safety standpoint, the energy requirements to boil and cool that volume of water would be massive; we generally flow 5 million gallons or so per day, and we only serve about 70K consumer points (IE: households, not individuals).
We need answers. Please someone confirm this because I’ve been using water bottles and some taste weird. Tap water taste good but can’t take chances due to my immune system
@@MrFrhnba I would suggest taking a sample from your tap and having it tested (And not by the door to door sales folks that want to test your water to sell you a filter system). In some environments, it is possible to have roots break into pipes and possibly contaminate water, while still allowing the pipe not to leak due to the way hydrodynamics can work.
You could also call your water provider and ask for input on getting a sample tested as well. They would likely want to get something like that fixed ASAP if that were the case.
That being said, it could also be the plumbing of the house that is affected, not necessarily the line from the water provider...
Can i ask why the treated wastewater and untreated water cant share the same water system? or he says in the video they almost never share the same water system. and also assuming that the water purification plant is in a lake where fish may be how does this affect them? i am doing an assignment on clean drinking water and your feedback would be extremely helpful
ive worked in waste water treatment for about 17 years, and have never seen a step by step of how the magic happens so clean and well thought out. this needs to be in every sydney water office as a base to their inductions. amazing stuff. you have gained +1 sub
I’m a water engineer for a city that provides water for 7-10M people (through city services and customer cities which are cities that buy water from other cities instead of treating it themselves) and I can tell you this is pretty accurate. I do have a few comments:
1. The lake is typically not on site and is usually pulled through a network of pipes.
2. In the coagulation, typically an iron coagulant is used.
2. The injection of ozone is one of the most expensive processes in water treatment because ozone is typically produced on site for larger cities, which requires TONS of electricity. This is just a fun fact.
3. I didn’t see him touch on chlorination prior to injection into the public use system. Bacteria can develop in older pipes so some chlorination is added to prevent harmful bacteria from traveling through the pipe network.
Thanks for the additional info!
I'm a water plant operator and we almost strictly use chlorination. Some of our smaller unmanned plants use Sodium Hypochlorite, but most (including the one I am currently manning) use chlorine gas. UV is still kind of being phased in simply because we don't really have any way of knowing whether it truly works in disinfecting as we don't use any means of testing it. We rely on chlorination.
The amount of detail in this video, be it the animation or the voice over is just phenomenal. The video reflects the amount of hardwork the creator has put in. I wish you reach millions of followers soon and the world appreciates your content.
Even better it covers some details most other videos do not without making things too complicated to understand.
Yeah this guy should have millions of subscribers
Wow, this was remarkably accurate without drowning the viewer in unneeded details. These processes are crucial all over the world and we can never let up on doing them right.
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As a wastewater operator this is a great video for those inquisitive individuals who always wondered what happens to water before and after their sink/shower/toilet. Great Job y'all!!! Thank you for this video! I'm referencing this video as a teaching aid!
Would love to see something like this for trash processing. I know there is a lot of variation depending on where you go but knowing what's "normal" would be nice.
that will likely be at movie length since they are separated at the bin already. multiple complexly different processes
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I was working on site for a new sewege water tretmant. It's an amazing process and this video is really accurate!
Excellent work. This is one example of an array of options to treat water. In the US, if the source water is surface water or E. Coli-contaminated groundwater, a “residual disinfectant “ is required which is not shown (such as addition of chlorine or chloramine).
bro you're a beast. these videos are insane. i could only imagine the amount of planning, research, and animation editing it takes to make one of these!
you should make another car one! maybe the hvac system in a car, suspension system, transmission systems, drivetrain/differential system, braking system, power steering system!
p.s i am uploading my next big video tomorrow and i voiced over some of your graphic work threw your website in the description as well. keep it up mate!
:D Always glad to see you in the comments, Buddy, and I'll check out your new vid to see how you were inspired to use my work! I like the sense of community, really makes it more worth it to be creating this stuff.
@@animagraffs should be out 2 pm tomorrow!!
And yeah man you're comment section has alot of good feedback. That's how you know your channel will grow brother 💪
Why is there a DIVER in the waste water ..?
Can they even see anything?
@@trumanhwmaybe for scale
@@animagraffs Sir , please make a video on Generating Electricity from Waste 🙏
Bruh, I studied Civil Engineering in college and I remember taking Water Resources lecture/lab. At that time, I had a fairly decent knowledge of how this works and can somewhat explain the overall process, but you just helped me understand it even more. You literally gave me the bigger picture while handling the smaller details in a non-overwhelming fashion. Holy shit. Awesome fucking job.
abbreviated version - "If you live in New Orleans, St Louis or Baltimore and DC, the glass of water you are drinking has already been in and passed through seven people." Great video! I spent years upgrading, pouring concrete and expanding the Charlotte Mecklenburg NC water purification and wastewater cleaning plants. I gladly drink tap water daily from our kitchen sink and enjoy it without fear and without plastic bottle waste. The LORD is great and I am 62 and have no liver or kidney or digestive trouble. My mom is 92, has done the same and has no problems with our CM water system. Her problem is soda pop and fritos.
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What's your opinion on the supposed abundance amount of chlorine and and fluoride in the water. While it's still relatively small, overtime usage of it can't be good right?
I’m curious how they remove chemicals and heavy metals from the wastewater when they turn it into drinking water.
@@meanuncledavid how do they remove the hormones bruh, and American sure love their drugs.
Can't say no to a fritos bag man
I went on a school field trip to the local water treatment plant. That was 1981. 5 the grade. To this day I remember it as the best field trip I ever went on. I was just amazed at how it all worked and learned so much. Every other field trip was a vacation from learning.
I had a similar experience in high school.
you forgot about the denitrification which comes after this step 10:05 (nitrifiacation= O²+ NH³ or NH4+ -> NO³-) . the denitrification is where nitrate(NO³-) will be broken apart to nitrogen gas(N²) and other endproducts.... it needs to be anaerobic(no Oxygen is present) otherwise the desolved oxygen(O²) will be used instead, of the microorganisms.
this step is quite important because otherwise the NO³- gets into rivers and lakes, which acts as a furtaliser und encreases the algae growth.
Love these videos. Always to the point easy to understand. So many videos have obnoxious narrators always begging for more subs and "Remember to click that bell!" I don't need anyone "reminding" me to subscribe. If a video's quality can speak for itself, then you've earned my sub, and the first animagraff I watched months ago earned you my sub. Keep up the fantastic work!
First one of these I saw, I hit that button so fast I scared it! These videos are Amazing! ❤
I love how high quality your videos are, it is clear you put a lot of time and effort into each one.
Very accurate description, down to the correct terminology. I'm a water treatment plant operator. We still use chlorination for disinfection, though UV is used in a lot of wastewater treatment plants, Ozone is used in a lot of water treatment plants for pretreatment to rid raw water of organic material. Great animation.
Are there places where our poo poo has to be shoveled from one collection spot to a truck? I'd hate to have that job.
@@dannydaw59 mate, I did that job for 7 years. The floculated sludge from the clarrifiers has to go somewhere; usually drying beds or a screw press or belt press. In the case of drying beds, you wait until the access moisture drains and re-enters the start of the process, then its shovel time. It sounds worse than it is. By the shovelling stage, its more like ashy dirt. We call it 'cake'. its light and has lost its smell thanks to the nitro bacta disolving the ammonia into nitrogen in the aeration tanks. Old mate mentioned that it is used for fertilizer but thats illegal in australia. We send it to landfill - which sounds bad - but its highly nitrified organic matter so the earth loves it. I work with drinking (potable) water now but waste water is way more fun and technical.
I'm glad I found a gem channel like yours, hope you grow to the millions subscribers mark soon !
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I originally found this channel by looking up how antique mechanical pocket watches work. So far, I have watched every one of your videos and subscribed with notifications. I love this kind of content that shows how things work. I am a visual and hands-on type of learner, and just reading about something and looking at pictures does not click for me. I have to be able to see it in action to properly get a grasp of it, and your videos help me do just that. Thanks for this amazing content and I hope you can continue to do this. I do not know the reason as to why you make these videos, but for whatever it may be, don't make yourself hate doing it by doing it too much to where it is like a job. Go at your own pace and do what you like. :D
Yes, this is my first Animagraff experience. Who is this person who takes the time and care to research and create these? What a resource! Is it altruism or the curiosity about these subjects that propels this work?
I once went on a tour in a water recycling plant. We got to see the input and output. The difference was so amazing, especially since it started off quite brown and ended up completely clear.
Great video!
the goat.
I smell a collab brewing! :D
The legend himself approves!!!!!!
I hear a battlefield horn :D
Amazing..
I'd ask you to post more, cause these videos are addicting af, but just imagining the amount of work it takes to just make one I get why you can't. Amazing work, really captivating!
I was thinking the same thing 😂. I want more but the amount and quality of information and animation makes me feel bad about asking or making suggestions. I hope he's making enough money or will in the future from these.
I actually always wondered how water treatment plants worked, but never searched for it.
This now solves it, and in a visually beautiful and well explained video.
I used to love going with my dad to the treatment plants. My dad had a supervisory role so he would just monitor everything and make adjustments if someone missed them, audits, etc. He let me do a lot of fun shit behind those gates. I learned how to operate a backhoe around 9 or 10 years old. That shit wouldn’t fly at all in modern times.
Well in theory this should get rid of all of the pollutants in the water but it does not when you actually check the faucet water. Likely due to just huge amount of volume of water which can't be filtered adequately by the city system, or it accurate toxins in the pipes.
Our water has a chlorine residual for that reason. It disinfects and helps reduce any bacteria or pathogens from growing in the distribution system.
It's interesting to see the different modes of treatment implemented in slightly different ways than I learned (i.e. in my Environmental ENG class most active carbons, rocks, and microsands were at the inlet or just after the inlet in drinking water treatment, and the bacteria were introduced in the sedimentation tanks instead of separate aeration tanks for waste water treatment). Many ways to skin a cat and all that.
Really great video! Another important thing to mention is that many times the water going back into the river after treatment is actually cleaner than the river water itself.
Great video. As a retired water purification plant operator of 40 years. Your description shows the actiflo process of coagulation.. My plant used it and conventional basin type of coagulation then ozonation and filtration. Since a disinfectant residual must be in the water as it leaves the plant, we used chlorimination to do so just before the clear well. Also fluoride was added just before the clear well and any other ph and alkalinity adjusting chemicals.
I grew up drinking water directly from the stream fed by mountain melting snow and pooping into a pit in the ground. It is impressive how "development" complicated so much these simple basic functions... Excellent instructional video!
One of the best channels on You Tube , WELL DONE !
Really cool topic. Great graphics.
Hi. I've been feeling quite bad about myself over the past year, having just gotten out of a terrible 3 year work cycle / rut that had me basically enslaved to my freelance job. I finished my work and am taking time off to recover. One thing i was always interested in is learning how the world works in the most basic sense. Infastructure, city systems, urban design, econ, shipping, how stuff gets around and moves and how modern society functions mechanically.
This video was absolutely excellent. I saved it. If you do one on electricity and electrical grid, or airports, or anything in that vein, know you'll have at least one viewer :)
Engaging, informative, easy-on-the-eye, good to listen to!
I really enjoyed this. I didn't know I needed to know how it all works, but I'm glad the youtube algorithm told me I did.
Wow man , such detailed work. Couldn't stop myself from subscribing. Amazed at the technology behind the water we drink and water treatment. Glad to live in a generation of technology
There is so much to be thankful for. This water system filtration is just one of the many things we should be thankful for. Imagine living in a time where this is not a convenience. How horrible that would be. Thank you Engineers and people behind this magic.
I always wondered how water got purified and what they did with waste water. Now I know! This truly was amazing! I look forward to more things like this!
Wow man. Really awesome stuff. Hoping this blows up sooner. This is very informative and easy to follow
Probably the best info video I’ve seen regarding anything ever. I work at a power plant with a full water treatment system and this is accurate.
Wow impressive animations and great explanations! I really hope that millions of people get to know you! :)
I can't believe how much I've learned from your very few videos. The graphics are beautiful and the topics are explained so even a dummy like me can follow along, You need to make more of these!
But you swam through it. I think that makes you very smart. I would die if I had tried to swim through it like you.
😂, you’re too humble, my friend !
As a union pipefitter that works at these plants, nice job!
Very good
I am a retired wastewater treatment plant operator of 27 years
Iona in Vancouver bc
You could make a second video
On the digestion of the solids removed
Their are 2 types of
Digestion
Aerobic
Aerobic treatment
Is basically a tank of solids where they pump oxygen to feed the bacteria that eat the solid organic waste
Anaerobic digestion has the benefit
Of methane
We use 2 types of bacteria
1 acid formers
They break down the waist
2 methane formers they eat the waist of the acid formers
And produce methane and some CO2
If it’s off can produce hydrogen sulphide a very caustic gas
Turns to hydrochloric acid when in contact with water
Why your nose and lungs burn
When exposed
Now with the methane
Their a few options
Methane is basically the same as natural gas
Now at Iona we have 5 large
Cogeneration units
Converted cat Diesel engines
Now we get 2 products from the cogens
1 Heat we use to heat the digesters
The bacteria is basically from our gut and intestine so it ideally should be heated to 37c
Body temperature
The rest of the heat can be dumped or heated the plant in general
2 thing we get from the cogens
Is electricity
5 cogens
We try and run at least 4 or 3 depending on the gas levels we are producing
And if all the cogens are actually running
They need lots of maintenance
I have always maintained
We should have installed boilers and run steam turbines
Much more efficient
And way less moving parts to wear out
The extra electricity we produced go to the grid
Helps to power the city
In the summer we is far less power than in the rainy seasons
I feel like your videos is why the internet was made.
Internet was made to sell weed and porn. And nothing else
Nice. I always wondered.
This video is another level not just detail but also head to tail.
Great video. I work in one of the biggest wastewater treatment plants in the world and naturally there's a ton more going on than described but for the general public this would be a great video to describe what's going on.
How accurate is this video? What dies he miss? How big are these facilities? How cost effective is it? How many personnel are required to run it? Are there test done before water is released to the public/back into nature?
Have you considered having collabotative videos with some other channels? Like, "How does a sky-scraper work" with Fred from The B1M, some civil infrastructure with Grady from Pratical Engineering, how various firearms work, with Ian McCollum at Forgotten Weapons, etc. The guest could maybe interact in some way with your animations as they explain how it works?
I hope your channel keeps growing! Cheers!
It’s interesting seeing the difference between this and my plant. We use lime softening so our process is quite different. Chlorinate the raw water, add lime and ferric/ammonia if needed into a basin. Then the water goes through an ozone chamber and c02 is added. Then to a filter and off to the vessels it goes where it’s filtered for TOC and color. At the very end we add extra chlorine/ammonia/ fluoride where it sits in our tanks before going out into the PWS. Cool video and well done.
I was wondering how the water treatment works. Thank you for making this video! I will share this to the teachers. The kids need to watch this. Keep making good videos.
Last year we organized a visit to a water purification plant. I wasn't able to attend in the end, so I'm thankful for this video explaining everything in details with amazing graphics. Thank you so much, incredible work as always!
Wonderful work. I knew literally nothing about waste water treatment before watching this. I have more recently become very interested in learning how in the world the treatment/purification processes work to handle the range of human waste, including blood and phlegm, etc) Yuck! Thank you for your graphics and narration . This is a fantastic study guide.
Excellent job. A true professional in graphic design with an impressive teaching style to teach various subjects.
Hey dude. I really appreciate the godly animations and the astronomical explaining. I can tell it takes a lot of hard work and you probably are squeezing in the time to do these videos and I really appreciate it. I have a special request. Next can you do how a fridge works?
Thanks for explaining very well and doing the research for us. I find it so amazing how you take so much research, and put it into amazing animations that people take ~15 minutes to watch. You are da beast. Keep the hard work up and I am so happy your in this world.
You should know that your work is a piece of art, congratulations!
Great stuff. Also - chlorine is often used as the disinfectant, rather than Ozone or UV light.
I work at a plant in California we use all 3
What people don't realize is waste water is ONLY water that goes down a toilet or drain inside of a home. Storm drains in the curbs of streets bypasses any kind of treatment plant and goes directly into lakes or rivers. Which means people who let engine oil/ antifreeze/ soap/ salt/ dead animals/ cigarette butts, etc. go down the drain on the side of the street. That all goes directly into the nearest open body of water.
This channel is amazing. Love the most recent video on 18th century ships. Keep up the good work, thank you for teaching me so much! My mind has been blown many times, seeing just how much goes into some things.
A prime example of an excellent conveyor of information, I love the visuals and the pacing of the video. Now subscribed!
I live on a small island in Canada where it rains a lot and we have a well. I once went to a friends house off island and was shocked to find out that they paid for water just like with electricity and such. I feel so bad for taking my usual long comfortable shower there.
As a wastewater operator I'm glad you went very general and didn't get into the multiple differences in process it can easily confuse people.
A lot of people don’t realize how good we have it. Infrastructure is amazing
Truest statement of the century. This video actually made me feel a lot better about how we handle our water
Gorgeous video and clear explanation. People should know how hard is to get potable water and that it is important to save water, rather than use it limitless and consider pure water as for granted.
Aren’t you supposed to put in some residual chlorine so that the water stays disinfected down stream?
Amazingly well produced: great animations and commentary pitch perfect. Thank you.
a very well animated video
I absolutely love your videos please never stop making them
You're a damn genius with animation and video creation. Hope you have an amazing career. Saw the first video and instantly said, "this guy has a lot of talent".
Worked at quite a few of these plants as an inside wireman and boy some of them are very clean for what they are, and some of them are absolutely disgusting. The 2nd one I was at I'd constantly get rashes on my arms and one day I was throwing up violently all over the jobsite. The other ones were as clean as poo can be! Also hear a guy 2 hours north drowned in one of the tanks a while back. I'd imagine that's the worst way to go. You can't swim or float in those tanks they take you straight to the bottom.
Here in the Phoenix area, we have an extensive canal system (thought not as extensive as it used to be) which, in some locations, also serves as a way to discharge waste water from these plants since any added ammonia or anything is actually useful for the farmers who use that water. It can also be sent down drainage canals, which ultimate discharge into natural washes or water ways, or it can be discharged into a catch basin and allows to soak into the ground to join the water in the aquifer. Some locations also use a separate piping system to use this reclaimed water for irrigation of city landscaping.
Heyyy we get a VO! Nice... you're a delight to listen to
Wonderful video! I worked for a combined Authority (water and waste water). Though the system you described is not the same as what I operated, your description has absolutely flaws!
I preferred running the Sewage Treatment end. Far more complex in that you had to coddle the digestive bacteria and keep them alive and active even when your upstream clients would do fun things to your plant like dumping gasoline, paint, polymers and other fun stuff.
Great: editing, animation, research, voiceover, information and overall vibe! Concise and yet well detailed.
Public drinking water is one of the most underrated parts of civil society. It often costs metered users less than a penny per gallon in the U.S. and there are many ways to get it for free. For most of human history, access to clean drinking water was out of the question, or sporadic at best. Everyone should have a right to clean, publicly supplied water.
I once go to waste water treatment plant in school trip. I still remember the smell after 20 years. Huge respect for people who work there every day.
I found your channel today and immediately subscribe. Content like this is what UA-cam not some useless media social junks.
I usually dont leave many comments but holy shit your channel is amazing! The animations are fantastic and the script is easy to follow and well narrated. Keep it up!
This is my favorite channel in all of youtube. Keep up the amazing work!
I used to work in a gold processing mill. We used a clarifier as well. "Preg" (water pregnant with gold particles) would flow over the top and would be combined with zinc, in a vacuum, to recover the gold.
Thank You Sir.
With your videos we better understand how things works.
Even more we can appreciate now the people who created/ manufactured such things.
this is a great video and thank you for it. However; it does Not mention the added chlorine and other chemicals to add or take off certain tastes in drinking city water?
He does mention some plants chlorinate in the video. The plant I work at uses chlorine for sure. However it was my understanding that all potable water in the U.S. must have a chlorine residual.
I have no possible relatable way for me to interact with such topic, yet, I watched the whole thing and now I'm wondering about what the other models are like. Goes to show how good of a video it is, the graphics, pace and explanation was awesome!
Water treatment plant operator here maybe I can answer some questions?
I work at a large municipal wastewater treatment facility and this is awesome!
I just discovered your videos today and have to say these are on par with any learning videos I've seen. My only critique would be to work on the intro and outro especially. A conclusion statement to me would cap off all the great narration for the project.
At any rate thank you to you and your team for all the hard work and look forward to seeing what's next.
Our city is old, and in places has a combined wastewater - storm drain system. I've seen things in the wastewater collection well after a heavy rain that you wouldn't believe, including tree branches, footballs, and dead animals.
I was mesmerized by the presentation that I almost "forgot" to pay attention to the content! Wow job, thank You!
Dude you deserve SO MANY MORE views
Very good Informative Video but I worked at a Wastewater Treatment Plant and seen a lot of them, though never seen UV-Treatment at the end or those Nozzles for better mix after that, maybe not used much in my Country(Germany). For Those which are Interested in Wastewater Treatment: The Sludge from the 1.st Sedimentation Stage "can" be used as Fertilizer but is mostly expenively burned in Trash Incineration Plants mostly because of the Heavy Metals residing in it, also on most bigger Wastewater Treatment Plants the Sludge gets Fermented to get Gas, this Gas can be used to fuel Generators, which produce Energy for the Plant to use (Main Purpose is to reduce Mass). In the Aerination (Correct Word: Nitrification / Denitrification) are 2 Zones, not 1 as it may be interpreted, Nitrification uses Oxigen, Denitrification does not. There would be some Details that can be added but I wanted to clarify these especially. (If you have questions I try to answer them if I can)
My father owned a carbon mill that provided carbon for municipalities for the final filtration process for taste and odor control. He started it on a five way partnership of 10 grand each to get it up and running. He bought out his partners and sold to Calgon for millions and retired at 50 years old. I was a millwright and enjoyed the experience from start to end.
This awesome!keep the rolling
Thanks!
Almost 2 videos in 1 month. My man is grinding!
hype! I actually finished up my private work projects to focus more on UA-cam. 1 video per month would be awesome and I'm hoping to keep it up!
All this with no advertising? What a great deal for curious minds. Great content, Jake!
6:09 "The water is now ready for public consumption". No it's not. If you pump that water out as is, it is going to destroy your pipes. You need to balance the calcium and the iron dissolved in the water first.
ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS ON W-W/W I HAVE SEEN....I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH
Thank you for this well-paced educational video! I would love to see an addendum...
A passion of mine over the last several years has been wastewater recycling, essentially creating a closed loop municipal water system as opposed to open-ended model like you represented. The environmental impact of these plants is significant, especially in arid climates, with 20-30% reductions on water source taxation. Encouraging their implementation is one of many noble and necessary steps towards sustainability and I would love to enlist your help in popularizing their use!
Don't hesitate to share your thoughts, hesitations, and ambitions. I'm here for all of it!
how do you keep moving parts lubrication ? from siezing up or wearing out
Most of the big cities add chlorine at the end of the process just in case.You know there is always a chance to contamination after leaving the processing place
In Singapore, wastewater is treated and put back into the main water supply. It's called NEWater. Our country is too small and we don't have enough reservoirs. That's why we have to do this.
And you somehow managed to do it all without specifically mentioning poop once. Incredible.
Salute to your work
This take a lot of efforts in all the aspects to give such a precious knowledge in one combined video 🙏🙏
Wow thats amazing the process to treat dirty water. I sometimes think that in my city they just boil the water and pump it back out for public usage.
This is an exceptionally well done educational video with absolutely perfect animations -- not overdone but definitely highly illustrative. What animation software are you using and could I get a rough idea on the number of hours needed to produce it? I'm looking at Blender and need an idea of the work involved for some science based videos I'm working on. Again, really impressive work...