My dad is a civil engineer. As a school child if I was ever ill from school I would have to go to work with dad and sleep in his car with my duvet while he worked at different sewage plants, he'd work for an hour or so at each plant, managing the workmen then we'd drive to the next one. Surprisingly a really good place to look after a sick child! Although it has sparked a lifelong interest(?) in how we deal with our waste. Taught me how much work can go into something that few people will ever thank you for. But it was a good job that needed to be done, and a reason not to bunk of school too often!
I am a retired wastewater treatment plant operator and I am so pleased that you know something about our often thankless jobs. Clean water is a basic necessity for life. Just like turning on a light switch, flushing the toilet or running a kitchen faucet are the basis of modern civilization. we are the forgotten workers in society, until our systems don't work!!
My dad had to inspect the tanks at the local wastewater treatment plant. The younger workers teased him about the "Clem stairs" that were built for him because he is in his 80s.
When I was a little orangutan, I learned that all water is basically recycled pee. I was so disgusted, I told my mom I wouldn't ever drink water again. She kind of chuckled to herself, and asked me sarcastically what I would drink, if not water. "Gatorade," I said. She then told me to look on the label of a Gatorade bottle, and I was crushed to discover the first ingredient on there was water.
As a long time Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator, I salute You for being the most accurate UA-cam video on this subject so far. You really did your homework.
Eating oranges "the water your drinking could have just been someone else's urine weeks ago" Me: but not in oranges! Few minutes later This sludge is used in fertilizers to grow the vegetables you eat Me: aw shit
+Alex Wong Almost everything growing now is growing on recycled matter from before. There's a few inputs from things that weren't used before, but that's quite the exception. Does it really matter if you're eating what used to be human feces and urine as opposed to, say, dinosaur feces and urine? Or eating cheese, which is the product of bacteria "recycling" milk?
For some reason, I've been fascinated with waste management and water management on the home and city level. Loved taking trips to the water treatment facilities and they would explain where the water came from and the process involved in cleaning it. Same with waste management, I think the idea of using huge bacteria pools to clean the water is really interesting. I suppose I'm odd. Maybe I should have gone into that field.
Septic doesn't come from latin, it comes from the greek word sepsis (σήψις) which means decomposition, rotting. Why do so many people say that some words are latin when they are much older than the romans... Anyway I get that this is a really minor part of the video but it bugs me.
The English word is taken from the Latin _sēpticus,_ itself borrowed into Latin from the Greek. Because Greek was essentially unknown in the West until the Turkish seizure of Constantinople, ancient Greek words were able to come into the Western Languages before that diaspora only through their earlier, Classical Latin borrowings. (This rediscovery of Ancient Greek was one of the main reasons for the Renaissance; and the rediscovery both of the original, Greek New Testament, and of Plato, the origin the Reformation.)
Maybe you were feeling like shit, and then you saw that even shit can be pretty useful in some things; or that even full-of-shit-water can turn into potable water.
Gotta take this time to, in all seriousness, thank the people who work the sewage treatment plants and such. Thanks for doing this job, because I sure as hell wouldn't be caught dead doing it X_X
@@Creeperboy099 : Does are high quality coffee extreamly expensive, so I would not worried about having this when tim horton does not charge that mush for there coffee, if it would be the case they would have to charge 50$ for a small coffee
@@blazewolf9912 You are such a troll, and just pointing out someone else grammar mistake, regardless if it his truth or not, his considered rude and being a troll that his not funny, and plus what did I @ in my previous comment, it was definitely not you.
i actually worked at a water treatment facility for a few weekends as part of paying off a fine all i can say is those places dont smell great but its not so bad you'll throw up more as you'll get used to it the longer you work what i spent my time doing was cleaning those big circular tanks fins and pressure washing side walks and one thing that wasn't mentioned was that theres always a pipe that burns off excess methane that burns 365 days a year
Fascinating stuff. If I ever accidentally go back in time and have to rule over ancient people (assuming I'm not killed immediately by predators, diseases, or angry people), I will remember to build a sewage system that includes secondary treatment. Also invent toilet paper. The Roman poop broomstick is just gross.
Hank you're my favourite science presenter on UA-cam 👍 Side note, I'm an electrical/electronic engineer in the sewage industry in England, so really enjoyed this video!
Fun fact: If you live in New Orleans, your tap water has been recycled over 200 times, I think actually something like 270 times. It's taken out of the Mississippi for drinking water, and discharged back after being treated in a wastewater plant. Don't worry though, it's disinfected before it's discharged back so it is pretty safe at that point, then it's disinfected again before it comes to your tap. Also, if you can taste chlorine, you should complain to your city hall. At the most, you should be able to barely smell it, but not really taste it. Besides, they can save money by using less chlorine.
For a while when I was in college, I had a work--study job taping environmental engineering lectures. Here's a little trivia concerning something I learned. After the heavy solids are removed, the resulting liquid is called "fecal broth." I would prefer not to cook vegetables in it, however! :)
@@ItsAstie Middle east, Asian (Specially Muslim countries) uses water and also soap and remember they use only left hand to do this kind of job..and they eat food with their right hand..whatever after that the normal process washing hands with another liquid soap that doesn't used to wipe their anal
I lived near a large property at one time where they tried to save money on grass fertilizer by using sewage sludge instead of animal poop. Seems that tomato seeds survive our digestive system and the sewage treatment nicely and they ended up with a beautiful yard of tomato plants, probably every variety imaginable! No word on how they were dealt with! 💩💩
Fun fact! I once calculated the amount of pee a person would make in about 45 years. Assuming that over the next 70 years, it is pretty evenly distributed across the world's water reservoirs, I worked out the concentration of those water molecules. Turns out that on average, in every 8 oz glass of water, there are roughly a trillion water molecules once pissed out by Adolph Hitler. Ah, the magical circle of life.
If you're a hotel guest... Flush Put more toilet paper down. Flush. Insert complimentary shampoo bottle. Flush. Put more paper down over shampoo bottle. Flush. Put foot in toilet. Flush. But towel down toilet. Flush. Call room service to complain about wet socks and carpet. Bad Yelp review.
40 years ago, I was listening to a radio phone-in gardening show in San Antonio and they were talking about free fertilizer- activated sewer sludge being available at the Rilling Road Sewer Treatment Plant. "Free" sounded pretty good to me, so I went down to the treatment plant. Before picking (shoveling) it into my pick-up, they told me exactly what it was and made me sign a form stating it was not to be used on any crop that was not to be cooked. I wanted it to fertilize my new lawn, so That was ideal. Some folks might complain that the dried sludge stunk, but it reminded me of my grandmothers root-cellar. After applying it to my front yard, about 3 weeks later, I noticed little plants popping up that weren't Bermuda grass. A neighbor walked over and asked me why I'd planted tomato plants in my yard. Sure enough, the tomato seeds in tomato's are not digested by folks, but passed thru and grew 3-4 inches tall never produced fruit.
Everything has a purpose of creation. So this is a eyes opening; is good to learn everyday. God bless you all. The idea come from if i am doing something for this earth and yes. I got it.
As a person who installs septic tanks and drainfields I approve of this. The septic tank illustration isn’t what we use but it’s close. We usually bury our tanks about 3-12” underground with a liftable manhole if you wanted to view it. From the classes I’ve taken after about 15’ of soil the water is clean enough to drink. In case you wanted to know that.
I was born and raised in a remote mountain of Se Asia, I remember my first time in a metropolitan city, boy the stench and poor air quality was unbearable for me. Not only that but the drinking water and foods weren’t as fresh either.
Nitrates and Phosphates trigger a boom for plant life, algae in particular, since we are so fond of putting our waste in water sources. This can trigger an Algal Bloom effect though, where tons of algae is produced, more than fish and other algae eaters can consume, and all this algae eventually dies and starts decomposing, which deoxygenates the water, causing the wildlife that relies on oxygen to suffocate and die.
"The water you just drank, may well have been part of someone's urine, just weeks ago." Thanks, right after I was pouring koolaid powder in a water bottle... LOL
I've heard they can also add lye, ammonia, fluoride. This was an awesome video. I would love to see this redone, as a more in detailed and slower paced 30-90 minute video. By the same, Hank Green, you are one of the best science videos series available.
I just purchased a brand new house sort of in the country but only 20 minutes from the city and every house in this neighborhood is on septic. I just realized I should buy some of that flushable stuff for septic systems. The water is also well water and it killed an entire area of my family and their entire neighborhood in the country. They all got weird forms of cancer.
Theres also a third way to treat septic water, though its still very new and used mostly in parks, cottages and rural homes in Ontario. the thrid way uses o3 or ozone to kill everything with in the water well taking very few of the nurents out. for any battria in the pipes hydron peroxide is add witch evorpes completly in a few seconds. most of it wil be gone before you finsh pooring your glass of water. the O3 has the same effect, in cottiges, and homes the water will come out bubbly, but thats just excess O3 coming off.
In order to make this video interactive, I watched it while drinking a glass of water.
***** Haha!
***** Thats funny because so did I.
***** Nothing beats 4D!
+スzyckon Ditto :D Liquids comes full circle
Thank you for the idea!
That was actually comforting to know. I used to think stuff just gets dumped raw straight to a river or the sea.
3rd world countries it does
@@Venom-zi4ht sadly 😢
So fish poop in rivers what's different
@@Venom-zi4htwhat do think the United States is becoming? And you can thank DEMONcrats for it.
@@jackson1342much less harmful diseases/bacteria id guess
My dad is a civil engineer. As a school child if I was ever ill from school I would have to go to work with dad and sleep in his car with my duvet while he worked at different sewage plants, he'd work for an hour or so at each plant, managing the workmen then we'd drive to the next one. Surprisingly a really good place to look after a sick child! Although it has sparked a lifelong interest(?) in how we deal with our waste. Taught me how much work can go into something that few people will ever thank you for. But it was a good job that needed to be done, and a reason not to bunk of school too often!
I am a retired wastewater treatment plant operator and I am so pleased that you know something about our often thankless jobs. Clean water is a basic necessity for life. Just like turning on a light switch, flushing the toilet or running a kitchen faucet are the basis of modern civilization. we are the forgotten workers in society, until our systems don't work!!
My dad had to inspect the tanks at the local wastewater treatment plant. The younger workers teased him about the "Clem stairs" that were built for him because he is in his 80s.
@@briangarrow448it’s not like yall do it for free yall get paid very well so you not doing it for thank you’s you doing it to get paid
So basically We're ALL DRINKING treated DOO DOOOO WATER 🤮
Sewage treatment plant workers you da real mvp
Thank you for the compliment. we turd herders appreciate it!
TheImpiroGirl tell that to Matt Meese ua-cam.com/video/y5Lfa_zLD1Q/v-deo.html
Thanks, it's not a glamorous job, but someone's gotta do it.
turd herders is poetry.
A herd of turd sounds dangerous...
I'm glad we have turd herders
When I was a little orangutan, I learned that all water is basically recycled pee. I was so disgusted, I told my mom I wouldn't ever drink water again. She kind of chuckled to herself, and asked me sarcastically what I would drink, if not water. "Gatorade," I said. She then told me to look on the label of a Gatorade bottle, and I was crushed to discover the first ingredient on there was water.
Noo you spoiled it for me. I didn't know that gatorade was pregnant with water....
You can’t make Coffee and tea without water and I guess u could use milk but I’m no expert but I think that has water too
Even some of your food has water
Bruh the food you eat has water-
Yeah there a lot of opioids and stuff in the water
As a long time Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator, I salute You for being the most accurate UA-cam video on this subject so far. You really did your homework.
''The water you just drank may well have been a part of someone’s urine just weeks ago''
*slowly puts bottle of water down*
lol did that too
or it could have been part of dinosaur urine millions of years ago that's been recycled in the ecosystem over millions of years.
Isaac Alinda funny
*Continues drinking water without a care*
_"...greasy fatty residue..."_
*_puts down bacon_*
If my dookie can make it out of the hood...maybe we can too!
Stfu
+Heather Spoonheim LMAO
W
W
preach!
I'm okay with ads
I'm okay with buffers
But when ads buffer
I suffer
Lool 😂
Yup same here
Lol XD
Prince Singh
Nice paste work.
Lmao
Eating oranges "the water your drinking could have just been someone else's urine weeks ago"
Me: but not in oranges!
Few minutes later
This sludge is used in fertilizers to grow the vegetables you eat
Me: aw shit
+Alex Wong xD
+Alex Wong still even if u didnt use fertiliser some1's urine could ahve been in there
true.. didnt think of that
+Alex Wong Almost everything growing now is growing on recycled matter from before. There's a few inputs from things that weren't used before, but that's quite the exception. Does it really matter if you're eating what used to be human feces and urine as opposed to, say, dinosaur feces and urine? Or eating cheese, which is the product of bacteria "recycling" milk?
Omg I'm dying after reading your comment as well as I'll never look at things I eat grown again
What happens? Shit happens...
I see what you did there
For some reason, I've been fascinated with waste management and water management on the home and city level. Loved taking trips to the water treatment facilities and they would explain where the water came from and the process involved in cleaning it.
Same with waste management, I think the idea of using huge bacteria pools to clean the water is really interesting.
I suppose I'm odd. Maybe I should have gone into that field.
Septic doesn't come from latin, it comes from the greek word sepsis (σήψις) which means decomposition, rotting. Why do so many people say that some words are latin when they are much older than the romans... Anyway I get that this is a really minor part of the video but it bugs me.
I'm glad to see that someone noticed.
Most Greek words come by way of Latin, so it might not technically be incorrect
What they actually mean is that it's all Latin to them!! ;-)
The English word is taken from the Latin _sēpticus,_ itself borrowed into Latin from the Greek.
Because Greek was essentially unknown in the West until the Turkish seizure of Constantinople, ancient Greek words were able to come into the Western Languages before that diaspora only through their earlier, Classical Latin borrowings. (This rediscovery of Ancient Greek was one of the main reasons for the Renaissance; and the rediscovery both of the original, Greek New Testament, and of Plato, the origin the Reformation.)
Was having a bad day and this just cheered me up. I don't know why.
probably cuz now that you saw this you knew your day couldn't get any more shittier. sorry I'm late
+Ardan Starmoon I'm actually having breakfast... so... idk what that means... but yeah...
+Ardan Starmoon Of course! Poop talk is always fun and funny.
Maybe you were feeling like shit, and then you saw that even shit can be pretty useful in some things; or that even full-of-shit-water can turn into potable water.
We need a catapult that could fling the feces with enough velocity to make it into space.
I'm calling it the crap-a-pult, or maybe trebu-shit.
+Carson Rush (3) look I can make up random things too and look like an idiot
+Carson Rush (4) astronauts would not be happy
(5) The moon would turn brown (or green)
+josh Subet (6) or red...wait
*****
heheeheehheehehe
This might sound weird, but I fell better knowing this. Of course only because I know we don't just throw shit in rivers.
This comment made my night
this may sound weird... but I knew this when I was like 10...
Same
this may sound weird but there are still people in the U.S. who pipe their sewage into waterways like it or not. I know of at least 5 examples.
There's nothing proprietary about your comment. For that reason, you are dead to me.
Gotta take this time to, in all seriousness, thank the people who work the sewage treatment plants and such. Thanks for doing this job, because I sure as hell wouldn't be caught dead doing it X_X
well if u were dead you wouldn’t be able to do anything at that point
Great now my Coffee tastes funny!
Jim's Inkspot Speaking of which, there is actually a coffee made from monkey feces...
:)
*drinks coffee faster*
@@Creeperboy099 : Does are high quality coffee extreamly expensive, so I would not worried about having this when tim horton does not charge that mush for there coffee, if it would be the case they would have to charge 50$ for a small coffee
@@SuperNickid Those*
@@blazewolf9912 You are such a troll, and just pointing out someone else grammar mistake, regardless if it his truth or not, his considered rude and being a troll that his not funny, and plus what did I @ in my previous comment, it was definitely not you.
Ignorance is a bliss.
i actually worked at a water treatment facility for a few weekends as part of paying off a fine all i can say is those places dont smell great but its not so bad you'll throw up more as you'll get used to it the longer you work what i spent my time doing was cleaning those big circular tanks fins and pressure washing side walks and one thing that wasn't mentioned was that theres always a pipe that burns off excess methane that burns 365 days a year
Is the burning methane used for generating energy?
Great topic, Hank! Being a student in epidemiology I really enjoyed this video. I wish you could do a whole series on public health/epidemiology.
So this is where dookie go!
Came here after seeing your comment 😂😂
Lmao theres already 1 comment from 4 years ago referencing that skit
@@alfariziislam3796 lol i came here after watching gil's comment.
@@tejavenkat6600 yes i saw it too lmao
@@alfariziislam3796 haha lol
Fascinating stuff. If I ever accidentally go back in time and have to rule over ancient people (assuming I'm not killed immediately by predators, diseases, or angry people), I will remember to build a sewage system that includes secondary treatment.
Also invent toilet paper. The Roman poop broomstick is just gross.
I like farts
Hank you're my favourite science presenter on UA-cam 👍 Side note, I'm an electrical/electronic engineer in the sewage industry in England, so really enjoyed this video!
IM SITTEN ON THE TOILET! SITTIN ON THE TOILET!
Now flush!
+Ethen Rosas lol
ANDFLUSH
The Life Of Elle lol
Mohammad Mustafa same
I never thought I would watch a ten minute video about sewage, yet here I am.
I had the privilege of going to a water treatment plant because a family member worked there. Was awesome.
I think i'm going to vomit.
....and then flush it down.
0:18 to 0:20
At least women were safe.
true dat
+MayaCatFairy
hoo-man shorthand
Every new comment new year lets keep this up boys !
You know what they say: "Valar Morgulis"...
Women would probably pass out just as much, maybe more if pregnant. Reflex to protect the fetus.
Nvm, I hadn’t finished the video. Thanks! I was quite concerned about how waste water is treated and this calms those fears.
Fun fact: If you live in New Orleans, your tap water has been recycled over 200 times, I think actually something like 270 times. It's taken out of the Mississippi for drinking water, and discharged back after being treated in a wastewater plant.
Don't worry though, it's disinfected before it's discharged back so it is pretty safe at that point, then it's disinfected again before it comes to your tap.
Also, if you can taste chlorine, you should complain to your city hall. At the most, you should be able to barely smell it, but not really taste it. Besides, they can save money by using less chlorine.
For a while when I was in college, I had a work--study job taping environmental engineering lectures. Here's a little trivia concerning something I learned. After the heavy solids are removed, the resulting liquid is called "fecal broth." I would prefer not to cook vegetables in it, however! :)
20,000 km of sewage pipes and London still stinks.
Verty Nah, a lot of the pipes are just old and need fixing up... but new skyscrapers and train stations are a bigger priority, I suppose.
verty wtf lol
Verty no it’s because British people don’t use water to clean their ass
@@abdulrahmanamir8497 who uses water to clean their butt?
@@ItsAstie Middle east, Asian (Specially Muslim countries) uses water and also soap and remember they use only left hand to do this kind of job..and they eat food with their right hand..whatever after that the normal process washing hands with another liquid soap that doesn't used to wipe their anal
Thank you so much, I feel a lot better now!
Imagine if you trip and fell inside the septic tank.
GD Panda25 I would hate it and scream I don't like using the restroom 😂😳😭🤒
you would get decomposed
It happened to an old woman. The didn’t find her for days. She died in a horrible way.
I can't even imagine it Gross!
@@Arthur_C22 poor old woman....
Well here in Switzerland I get water straight from the mountains, so luckily I don't have to drink shit :D
ya'll have great chocolate :)
Water cycle the poop water might already be there
I climb the Swiss Alps just to take a huge dump on every peak. I pack burritos then let 'er fly
*****
bet mud tastes better than shit
People and animals have existed for a long time, I'm sure just about all the sources we get water from have at least had shit or piss in them.
I lived near a large property at one time where they tried to save money on grass fertilizer by using sewage sludge instead of animal poop. Seems that tomato seeds survive our digestive system and the sewage treatment nicely and they ended up with a beautiful yard of tomato plants, probably every variety imaginable! No word on how they were dealt with! 💩💩
Fun fact! I once calculated the amount of pee a person would make in about 45 years. Assuming that over the next 70 years, it is pretty evenly distributed across the world's water reservoirs, I worked out the concentration of those water molecules.
Turns out that on average, in every 8 oz glass of water, there are roughly a trillion water molecules once pissed out by Adolph Hitler.
Ah, the magical circle of life.
That's both amazing and hysterical! :o)
Yeah, that'll show him! USA! USA!....no, wait a sec...damn it.
Really?! Now I will take water and boil it until it evaporates LOL
Just kidding.
*****
Joke's on you, now you're _breathing_ Hitler's piss.
OMG THIS COMMENT HAHAHA i love this
I swallowed an ice cube and haven’t pooped it out yet. Is it stuck? I’m really scared.
This was a very helpful video and it changed my perspective on some things so thank you SciShow for this video.
Didnt think my poop took such a long journey 🤣
Yep, the very same water we drink has been on this earth for eons of years! It's not brand new water! 😆 it's recycled.
Eat chocolate pudding while watching this. 😂
I am... And I'm also sitting on my toilet. Don't judge me
I like farts
ajh113 I'm judging you so hardcore.
Relax Playstation
Had some chocolate + peanut butter myself.
The sludge can now also be used as biofuel, not just compost.
0:42 Hank is by far my favorite presenter.. Gosh he's so funny and passionate about what he does! Love you Hank... No homo!!
If you're a hotel guest...
Flush
Put more toilet paper down.
Flush.
Insert complimentary shampoo bottle.
Flush.
Put more paper down over shampoo bottle.
Flush.
Put foot in toilet.
Flush.
But towel down toilet.
Flush.
Call room service to complain about wet socks and carpet.
Bad Yelp review.
Fred Norris this is so specific, you have got to be speaking from experience.
Hahaha I'm dead
I started reading the first few lines to the tune of "Drank."
Assholes like u are why hotels are so expensive
Had s**
*Flush*
How ironic that Im watching this while sitting on the toilet 🤣
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I suck at rhyming
Potatoes
fair enough
patahtoes!
putahoes?
+BeanturdBrain n PATAHTOES
A Goddamn Fruit P U O T A I T A R S
This channel makes me laugh but intrigues me at the same time I love it
40 years ago, I was listening to a radio phone-in gardening show in San Antonio and they were talking about free fertilizer- activated sewer sludge being available at the Rilling Road Sewer Treatment Plant. "Free" sounded pretty good to me, so I went down to the treatment plant. Before picking (shoveling) it into my pick-up, they told me exactly what it was and made me sign a form stating it was not to be used on any crop that was not to be cooked. I wanted it to fertilize my new lawn, so That was ideal. Some folks might complain that the dried sludge stunk, but it reminded me of my grandmothers root-cellar. After applying it to my front yard, about 3 weeks later, I noticed little plants popping up that weren't Bermuda grass. A neighbor walked over and asked me why I'd planted tomato plants in my yard. Sure enough, the tomato seeds in tomato's are not digested by folks, but passed thru and grew 3-4 inches tall never produced fruit.
Every time I hear this channel's theme music it reminds me of the stage 2 music from the original NES Double Dragon.
0:42
Seriously though it's actually good not bad
when he said the water your drinking is someone's pee I was dining water
Gerard Cinquegrano I’m never drinking again
thanks, Hank! we can always count on you! ;)
im a civil engineering student and u explained this better than my prof could in 2 hrs
dude. i just ate, why me.
He seems too excited for the subject of the video...
Nahid hank loveees poop
@@Otkubst he calls it "the delicious brown liquid"
the world was created on The Big Bang,
and the world will end on The Big Stink.
God made their earth so...
+Super Poptropican *the
+Su
+Super Poptropican so... maybe the Big Bang is at least part of how God created the Earth.
god doesnt exist
Thanks to the minds that made our current septic and sewer systems what they are today. You guys literally keep man kind ticking
This video makes me happy that there are acids that can, in a pinch, "clean" those metallic screening parts without people having to touch them.
What's sad is that I watched this while on the toilet. Now I know all this
Archer Max im watching this on the toliet too (:(
YOU LITERALLY JUST MADE SHIT INTERESTING
"bottled at a municipal source"
Everything has a purpose of creation. So this is a eyes opening; is good to learn everyday. God bless you all. The idea come from if i am doing something for this earth and yes. I got it.
As a person who installs septic tanks and drainfields I approve of this. The septic tank illustration isn’t what we use but it’s close. We usually bury our tanks about 3-12” underground with a liftable manhole if you wanted to view it. From the classes I’ve taken after about 15’ of soil the water is clean enough to drink. In case you wanted to know that.
i was literally drinking water when he said that. GREAT JOB I ALMOST THREW UP...jk
Lol
Whew, it's a damn good thing that Homeopathy is bunk. Otherwise, the tiny amounts of toxins in cleaned water would kill us.
I like farts
Only if you chose to believe :)
Kinan Radaideh ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Derrick
"It eats your poop." - 2014
I was born and raised in a remote mountain of Se Asia, I remember my first time in a metropolitan city, boy the stench and poor air quality was unbearable for me. Not only that but the drinking water and foods weren’t as fresh either.
Thanks for the link SciShow
*takes sip of water mixed with lemonade flavor packet*
"The water you JUST drank, might have been apart of someone's urine just weeks ago"
*gulp*
O_O
Ahaha that's hallirious
Why can't we drink unfiltered water in the wild like wild fauna do?
*Kinan Radaideh* like farts, so it seems.
I like farts
It's an unhealthy relationship
Kinan Radaideh
You like farts.
Very much. I like farts
Nope. I like farts too much
Nitrates and Phosphates trigger a boom for plant life, algae in particular, since we are so fond of putting our waste in water sources.
This can trigger an Algal Bloom effect though, where tons of algae is produced, more than fish and other algae eaters can consume, and all this algae eventually dies and starts decomposing, which deoxygenates the water, causing the wildlife that relies on oxygen to suffocate and die.
Now I can finally take a dookie without thinking about all the things that went down
so basically you eat veggies that u poop which is used as fertilizer for veggies that u eat then poop and yea u get the idea
I was literally drinking from my water bottle when he said about the urine thing....
I nearly spat it out all over my desk and drawing tablet.
>:C
"The water you just drank, may well have been part of someone's urine, just weeks ago." Thanks, right after I was pouring koolaid powder in a water bottle... LOL
this channel is answering the real questions!
I've heard they can also add lye, ammonia, fluoride. This was an awesome video. I would love to see this redone, as a more in detailed and slower paced 30-90 minute video. By the same, Hank Green, you are one of the best science videos series available.
Here from key and peele
I was drinking my soda when he mentioned "Point of fact the water you just drank may well have been part of someones urine just weeks ago"
By small animals do you mean... goldfish?
I like farts
Goldfish, and occasionally pet mice, small hamsters, etc.
Anything that is buried via the toilet. Also bugs.
Well water is water yucky well guess we’ll all die anyways ! Very interesting video !
Tomatoes grow really nice in sewage compost
Causally watching a Shane Dawson Video *
Nobody :
Absolutely nobody :
Me : where does poop go when you flush it
i drink from the tap not from the bottom
its was really hard to drink tea while watching this video.
Nuclear Cashew And coffee... lol I had to stop drinking my coffee halfway through this video lol
Nuclear Cashew It was really hard to drink urine watching this too.
Nuclear Cashew why ? its nothing but water, if it wasn't for the treatment it goes through you would be drinking urine
Would love a modern scishow update on this.
I just purchased a brand new house sort of in the country but only 20 minutes from the city and every house in this neighborhood is on septic. I just realized I should buy some of that flushable stuff for septic systems. The water is also well water and it killed an entire area of my family and their entire neighborhood in the country. They all got weird forms of cancer.
Blackwater city just got a new meaning :/
I like farts
Wow. That digester is kinky.
Welp not going to drink from the tap anymore...
I’m kind of glad they started to change!
This video was recommended when I was on the toilet. I’m onto you UA-cam.
I thought it said ' What Happens After You Floss'!
Who’s here from Key and Peele?
This is scary accurate...
Literally me🤣🤣🤣
Bro wtf I am and it's 3 years from now
Lmao
I’m here cuz I’m dropping a Duce rn and was curious where it went🤣🤣
If our dookie can make it outta the hood, maybe we can too.
Literally pooping while watching this, goodbye poop and see you in the next 2 weeks.
Theres also a third way to treat septic water, though its still very new and used mostly in parks, cottages and rural homes in Ontario. the thrid way uses o3 or ozone to kill everything with in the water well taking very few of the nurents out. for any battria in the pipes hydron peroxide is add witch evorpes completly in a few seconds. most of it wil be gone before you finsh pooring your glass of water. the O3 has the same effect, in cottiges, and homes the water will come out bubbly, but thats just excess O3 coming off.