People really have no idea how complicated water treatment is. Grady over at practical engineering has a great couple videos on it that dives even further into it.
Yes! I have a friend who manages a waste water treatment facility. I found it so fascinating I pleaded with him for a tour of the facility. So stinky, but so dang interesting. So much science going on there, and most people don't even think about it.
Honestly, when I was a kid one of the thoughts that kept me up at night was “what if one day we run out of water, since the water we drink turns to waste and water is abiotic so it cant reproduce???” I don’t know why I never realized how water gets recycled 😂
I worked at one of these waste management plants. You don't want to know... But gloves were the only safety equipment anybody wore 🥴 Everybody gets sick from the splash.
@@David_Quinn_Photography it's relatively clean and even could be potable in case of dire need. NEWater (as what they call in SG) is commonly used for industrial use in normal situation. It was used at least once when main potable water source was contaminated by chicken farm industrial waste in Malaysia iirc.
I live in cattle country and that's what mfs always said when you could smell the cow shit in the air. Never failed to make me want to punch somebody in the face every time I heard it
This time probably smells like money lose. He probably has to pay to dump the truck here. Granted, he's still making money because he can't pump more if the truck is full.
As a wastewater operator in WV, he perfectly described the process of our plant. There’s even more types of plants such as SBR’s which do every process besides kill fecal in one tank. Every process has pros and cons. It’s all extremely complex and the process of treatment can be set off by rain. Don’t take it for granted and I urge everyone to thank there Local Wastewater Plants and Water Plant Operators. We don’t have the best job, but I work hard to make sure nothing goes wrong or stays wrong. I’m a Wastewater Operator and Master Electrician.
My father was an operator, we would join him Sat mornings on a routine check of the plant and 2 substations. We got crap stories...lol. Saw my first porno mags there...dirty old men.😮
I used to work at a sewage treatment plant. The worst job was cleaning out the aeration vat. They would drain the waste water and it would leave the solid poop sludge where I shoveled it into a 50 gallon drum that was hoisted up and then dumped. I did this for weeks straight.
They told me at the plant I visited that the water they clean is cleaner than the river they pump it into. I saw that final tanks, i said “yep I’d swim in that” 😂
They teach you all this in college/trait school I'm honestly curious. You being a graduate and knowing this whole process would be something that everyone denies.
Its actually better than that, once all the shit gets turned into "potting soil" it goes on a conveyor belt and on to trucks and take it to a packaging facility for home depor or lowes... That is correct! I dont know what goes on where they put it in bags, if its like 100% shit that goes in there or if maybe they mix it with other stuff like dirt, but i go in these places for construction all the time (i work in construction and these places are always expanding) and ofcourse i get curious and ask the employees there and thats what i was told.
Bro imma be telling you facts, every single drop of water on earth is older than all of life combined, the atoms in your beef could once have come from a frigging tyrannosaurus Rex, and the water your drinking came here from space on a frigging rock hurtling faster than the speed of sound. So why are you concerned about drinking recycled and purified poop water, don't worry your water is perfectly clean. The FDA in the U.S ensures its clean by running regular quality checks, looking for any potential contamination risks and trying to fix what they find, and ensuring that your water has no shit in it. Also if you understood what ultrafiltration was, have a groundwater well, or if you had any brains google ultrafiltration and it'll tell you why you don't drink shit everyday.
so this depends on where you are in, if you’re down stream from a large city like the major cities downstream of denver on the colorado you are drinking that water
I heard once that we never can actually waste water because of the water cycle technically but what we are wasting is the energy produced to transport the water to the desired location which makes much more sense than just. "wasting the water" which is impossible in a closed system
You get use to it. The wrist smell is the grease and the corn tortilla chip fermentation water they dump. At least that facility is outdoors. I worked at a private plant inside a metal building.
I worked at the Sacramento waste water and sewer plant for 3 yrs ,doing underground electrical construction. You learn to blow and bite the same time to keep the flies off your samich ! 😂
@@marvzkiNot a source but if you think about it everything that was in somebodies body is now in the water as well as pesticides and chemicals that runoff from factories and farms. The thing is, treatment facilities are so advanced that if anything is left it will be in such small amounts that it won’t really matter.
I am a wastewater treatment operator, activated sludge/extended aeration, and people may be surprised to know that this career field is enjoyable, the science behind it is very interesting. There is a bit more involved in the process, but he summed it up very well. I describe my job as making bugs happy and protecting the environment!
I’m convincing the girl we just hired to start a TH-cam channel I don’t see a lot of women pumping septic tanks I showed her your account as inspiration.
It all depends on the aeration. When properly aerated the mixed liquor (poo water) has sort of an earthy non offensive odor. Turn the air off for a period of time and allow it it to go septic then turn it back on, then yes the neighbors will start calling.
dumb people questions it by raging and thinking that they've been fed poo water, as if the freshest water of the highest american mountain top isn't the condensed pee of some guy in the 1800
As I work for one of the biggest water treatment company i can confirm you that this process is accurate.❤ And yea out of that poop we make biogas and power the whole water treatment plant so this process is self sustaining
Condoms,dental floss, toys,dentures,fish heads, and drugs. Yes i have pulled out all of this from my rod machine. My buddy slept whit a client because he radded her line pulled nothing but condoms told her and she said please dont tell my husband, and thats how that happened.
Great and Simple explanation @PoorpumperSociety. it's not just about pumping the tanks and mixing a pump smoothie but it's about knowing where this dirty water goes also and gets cleaned prior to being released into the environment. Great job!
I used to work at a water treatment plant that used a DAF system and let me tell you about getting suited up to clean out the floatation tanks once a month it actually wasn't too stinky but the slime made it a massive slip hazard. Really liked that job driving to the storage tanks taking chemical measurements monitoring flows and pressure some tanks didn't have digital meters so I'd get to take a drive at least once a day
Im an electrican and had to work at an old plant like this. Worst part wasnt the smell, it was the ducks. Ducks would swim in the water and get spooked if you walked near, flying over your head and getting that water everewear
Our local plant used to further process the solids which would go on to be mixed with the green waste from our green waste garbage bins to create a mixture used to create souls and fertilisers sold by local garden centres.
Practical Engineering has a great video on wastewater treatment and all kinds of other infrastructure and engineering topics, i'd highly recommend checking that channel out too.
You forgot the last step, which is to remove the bio-solids and spray them on a farm near you, both for the sensory enjoyment of the whole community for miles around as well as to make sure that, generations from now, that soil will still have elevated levels of heavy metals in it to contribute to whatever crop is being grown.
So I know it’s weird, but I’m really great full one of my middle school field trips was a visit to our local poop plant, and while it was the most foul smelling place on earth, we learned SO much about how they filter the scum, the engineering behind it all, the chemicals used. So mych great teachings from the company and their staff on such a gross, but important topic. It’s better to know where it’s going, than just leaving it and being done with it. Actually very interesting work
My county goes a lot further in cleaning the water then pumps it in a huge pipe several miles to the lake we get our freshwater from . They can divert the outflow to a creek if there is a problem.
If there was better education for waste disposal, we wouldn't need to pay as much taxes for separation processes like this! Gotta start at the source to fix the problem!
The sludge, which is leftover is usually pumped into centrifuges to be de-watered, where it now takes up less space and called cake. That cake is either burned and sent to the landfill or just sent to the landfill. They used to truck this stuff as fertilizer, but it needs to be processed further. That is too expensive.
My school had a field trip to waste treatment plant.... It stunk horribly. I disobeyed orders by leaving due to getting sick. Over all i know its vital and I appreciate you iron stomach mad lads
I used to live near one, we called it the shit plant because you could smell it over 5-10 miles out on a hot humid day. Fishing over there was great though.
I’ll never forget manually scraping bar screens many moons ago. There was this really bad one that was a rotating drum - huge pain to clean and smelt like death in the summer when that stupid heavy metal door was opened.
People really have no idea how complicated water treatment is. Grady over at practical engineering has a great couple videos on it that dives even further into it.
Yes! I have a friend who manages a waste water treatment facility. I found it so fascinating I pleaded with him for a tour of the facility. So stinky, but so dang interesting. So much science going on there, and most people don't even think about it.
Would not recommend diving into waste water. 😅
Honestly, when I was a kid one of the thoughts that kept me up at night was “what if one day we run out of water, since the water we drink turns to waste and water is abiotic so it cant reproduce???” I don’t know why I never realized how water gets recycled 😂
It goes back into the environment
Travels its way to the water plant
Gets treated and is sent to our home 🍻
I'm a chemist at a waste treatment facility and next to no one I've talked to about my job even realizes it's a thing
Ain’t no way shit just got splashed on the camera 💀💀💀
💀💀💀💀
Exactly what I was thinking !!
I worked at one of these waste management plants.
You don't want to know... But gloves were the only safety equipment anybody wore 🥴
Everybody gets sick from the splash.
He's gonna lick it off. Don't worry! 👍
I literally thought of that when i saw it
This guy really knows his shit💀💀
Lmao! 🤣
💀 guy got me dying
not only his
💀
Literally
BASICALLY, we be drinking it up and doing our dishes with it in a few weeks 😂 water treatment is truly incredible
even singapore takes further step and make their pee water drinkable after going thru rigorous process
And drinking the medication that people piss out.
It's clean after that process regardless
@@David_Quinn_Photography it's relatively clean and even could be potable in case of dire need. NEWater (as what they call in SG) is commonly used for industrial use in normal situation. It was used at least once when main potable water source was contaminated by chicken farm industrial waste in Malaysia iirc.
Exactly
His camera got hit with the forbidden smoothie near the end
My shit after a few beers and hot wings …..it’s somewhere in there
Around 0:44
dont let the government trick you into thinking its forbidden!!
MMM
Smells like money!
I live in cattle country and that's what mfs always said when you could smell the cow shit in the air. Never failed to make me want to punch somebody in the face every time I heard it
mr krabs
This time probably smells like money lose. He probably has to pay to dump the truck here. Granted, he's still making money because he can't pump more if the truck is full.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
No no no MMMMM SMELLS LIKE MONEYYYY
I’m so thankful for the people who figured this stuff out
As a wastewater operator in WV, he perfectly described the process of our plant. There’s even more types of plants such as SBR’s which do every process besides kill fecal in one tank. Every process has pros and cons. It’s all extremely complex and the process of treatment can be set off by rain. Don’t take it for granted and I urge everyone to thank there Local Wastewater Plants and Water Plant Operators. We don’t have the best job, but I work hard to make sure nothing goes wrong or stays wrong.
I’m a Wastewater Operator and Master Electrician.
What happens with the sand and gravel? reused?
how much you get payed?
@@thesaddestdude3575 that gets shipped to you local Taco Bell to be used as filler for their ground beef.
My mom spent years working at a waste water plant. I got free tours of the whole facility! Really interesting process.
Yeah my great uncle worked at one his whole life
So u got shit tour as kid
My father was an operator, we would join him Sat mornings on a routine check of the plant and 2 substations. We got crap stories...lol. Saw my first porno mags there...dirty old men.😮
I would of ended it with.... then it is bottled and sold back to you or filtered and added to your tap water. Lol
It actually does. Some of the water Is sent through tap water. It sounds disgusting but it goes through multiple stages of cleaning
@@fearlesswindows we drink the water the dinosaurs drank. water has been passed around more than the blonde highschool cheerleader
@@blazingtrs6348 nah the last line was personal 💀
@@blazingtrs6348 bro did you get NTR'd by a cheerleader? 💀
@@fearlesswindows nah i just heard that joke from a video and thought it was funny
I used to work at a sewage treatment plant. The worst job was cleaning out the aeration vat. They would drain the waste water and it would leave the solid poop sludge where I shoveled it into a 50 gallon drum that was hoisted up and then dumped. I did this for weeks straight.
Ahh man that sounds awful 😖
Good pay i hope tho 🙏
@@OblivionsAbyss 12.50 hour buddy.
@Jackson Sinclair hell no you should at least get 20 for doin that
@@jacksonsinclair261512.50??? that’s crazy. and people be like “no-one wants to work anymore” smh
@@kyler4836 he said "used to" that could be last week or 3 decades ago.
They told me at the plant I visited that the water they clean is cleaner than the river they pump it into. I saw that final tanks, i said “yep I’d swim in that” 😂
That’s not saying much.
Well, no fish crap, bugs, raw effluent, trash, fleas..it's basically cleaner on a macro level.
@@MrM6d exactly, that’s like bragging your sink pipe is cleaner than the sewage line the sink goes into.
As a graduate engineer, this is 100% on point. Respect to this guy.
OogA booga
Respect for what
Wow, a graduate engineer.
As a professional racist, this is so true
They teach you all this in college/trait school I'm honestly curious. You being a graduate and knowing this whole process would be something that everyone denies.
Always was curious about that! I thought u dumped it out in some field lol
lol can you imagine. Mans would be in jail haha
Its actually better than that, once all the shit gets turned into "potting soil" it goes on a conveyor belt and on to trucks and take it to a packaging facility for home depor or lowes...
That is correct!
I dont know what goes on where they put it in bags, if its like 100% shit that goes in there or if maybe they mix it with other stuff like dirt, but i go in these places for construction all the time (i work in construction and these places are always expanding) and ofcourse i get curious and ask the employees there and thats what i was told.
The water (in many cities) its used for irrigation for peoples yards. Its called "reclaimed water"
The grit and heavy debris get sent to a landfill and the sludge gets pumped into digesters and can be either put in the ground or turned into compost
Ghostland Observatory! Great band and song
Yes i got so excited when i heard it start playing
And then water companies use it to fill water bottles
all water is dinosuar piss
And this is an issue why?
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger 💪🏾
"Scum will float" -Vergil
Im a treatment specialist at a plant. Pays pretty good too! Smells like money!
i want to do that
Passing by one on the road when the aereator breaks...(sounds of retching)
cant describe how incredibly grateful i am to live in a country like America where we have things like this. People take things for granted so much.
I love that he’s explaining water treatment while we watch just an absolute avalanche of shit coming from his truck💀💀💀💀
I was always interested in how this process worked but never wanted to do the work myself lol
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Best tasting former toilet waste water EVER!!!!
Stupid comment if you are even remotely intelligent
I have the utmost respect for the people working in sewage/waste treatment. It’s a dirty job that many are unwilling to do but is incredibly important
i was wondering why i can smell this video, then I realized I'm taking a dump watching this vid 😂😂😂
🤢🤮
Poetry , pure poetry
Activating that smellovision. Nice.
Definitely needed to reveal that to the entire world
@@darthjarjar2742he did
couldnt help but notice the poo on your camera at the end
There's no way I'm drinking poop water right now
Just how old do you think your water is?
Showering in it too
Bro imma be telling you facts, every single drop of water on earth is older than all of life combined, the atoms in your beef could once have come from a frigging tyrannosaurus Rex, and the water your drinking came here from space on a frigging rock hurtling faster than the speed of sound.
So why are you concerned about drinking recycled and purified poop water, don't worry your water is perfectly clean.
The FDA in the U.S ensures its clean by running regular quality checks, looking for any potential contamination risks and trying to fix what they find, and ensuring that your water has no shit in it.
Also if you understood what ultrafiltration was, have a groundwater well, or if you had any brains google ultrafiltration and it'll tell you why you don't drink shit everyday.
so this depends on where you are in, if you’re down stream from a large city like the major cities downstream of denver on the colorado you are drinking that water
All water is poop water.
I've had this question all my life as i grew up. God bless the water treatment specialists and sites!
Since the solid got separated by water
It is in theory possible to pan for gold from the gravel of the heavier solid
The poop water hitting the camera had me dead 💀
Perfect representation of a US Election 🤷♂️
This is by far the best comment fathomable on this video 👐 🤣
🤔
What a stupid fucking thing to say.
I heard once that we never can actually waste water because of the water cycle technically but what we are wasting is the energy produced to transport the water to the desired location which makes much more sense than just. "wasting the water" which is impossible in a closed system
Kudos to the scientists, designers, and developers of this process.
You know that place on a hot summer day.... smells like flowers
You get use to it. The wrist smell is the grease and the corn tortilla chip fermentation water they dump.
At least that facility is outdoors. I worked at a private plant inside a metal building.
I drive past one at least 20 times per week, as a bus driver, and boy!... It smells like Nirvana at 100° 🥴
How long does this process take? Great video keep up the awesome work you do with your family
Depends on the treatment plant and the size. Could be as fast as a day for small plants or as long as over 150 days for extended aeration plants
Pharmaceuticals and Forever chemicals never get removed
i LOVE that they make sure that its safe to drink, to bathe and to use generally
from shit water to clean water
I worked at the Sacramento waste water and sewer plant for 3 yrs ,doing underground electrical construction. You learn to blow and bite the same time to keep the flies off your samich ! 😂
😂😂
Deceased 👌🏼😭🤣🤣
That’s horrible 😂
So that means I’m drinking Shart and toilet water💀
As well as hormones and traces of medication.
@@okkromsource?
@@marvzkiNot a source but if you think about it everything that was in somebodies body is now in the water as well as pesticides and chemicals that runoff from factories and farms. The thing is, treatment facilities are so advanced that if anything is left it will be in such small amounts that it won’t really matter.
@@Koyomix86karens always get so paranoid at the slightest mentions of substances and chemicals they have never heard of 🤣
@@s.c.6499flouride will literally make you retarded
That is wicked cool. I didn't know you were that integral to helping the environment.
I am a wastewater treatment operator, activated sludge/extended aeration, and people may be surprised to know that this career field is enjoyable, the science behind it is very interesting. There is a bit more involved in the process, but he summed it up very well. I describe my job as making bugs happy and protecting the environment!
Can imagine all the mosquitoes during humid months
How often do you have to clean out the poop tank on your truck for inspection?
dude I'm never going in a 5 mile radius of that camera
I’m convincing the girl we just hired to start a TH-cam channel I don’t see a lot of women pumping septic tanks I showed her your account as inspiration.
Thank you for your work in keeping our environment clean. SMELLS LIKE MONEY!!! 💩💩💩
Does it smell bad?
No it smells like flowers
No, it smells like money
No shit
It all depends on the aeration. When properly aerated the mixed liquor (poo water) has sort of an earthy non offensive odor. Turn the air off for a period of time and allow it it to go septic then turn it back on, then yes the neighbors will start calling.
It's incredible how advanced our society is. All of these structures just work and no one questions it.
dumb people questions it by raging and thinking that they've been fed poo water, as if the freshest water of the highest american mountain top isn't the condensed pee of some guy in the 1800
As I work for one of the biggest water treatment company i can confirm you that this process is accurate.❤ And yea out of that poop we make biogas and power the whole water treatment plant so this process is self sustaining
I'm a waste water treatment automation designer. This is pretty accurate. Have a good one boys
Condoms,dental floss, toys,dentures,fish heads, and drugs. Yes i have pulled out all of this from my rod machine. My buddy slept whit a client because he radded her line pulled nothing but condoms told her and she said please dont tell my husband, and thats how that happened.
Treasure troove but buddy's score really is risky.
I would have absolutely told the husband
Is it big money in this line of work?
Great and Simple explanation @PoorpumperSociety. it's not just about pumping the tanks and mixing a pump smoothie but it's about knowing where this dirty water goes also and gets cleaned prior to being released into the environment. Great job!
I’m glad and I was hoping you were going to show video about this the other end of the process you’re right water treatment is vital.
I used to work at a water treatment plant that used a DAF system and let me tell you about getting suited up to clean out the floatation tanks once a month it actually wasn't too stinky but the slime made it a massive slip hazard. Really liked that job driving to the storage tanks taking chemical measurements monitoring flows and pressure some tanks didn't have digital meters so I'd get to take a drive at least once a day
Ayyy , as an operator for my city, thanks for making me feel useful 🙂
I worked for a company that only built waste water treatment plant in Southern California.
As the population grew, the plants had to be expanded.
Im an electrican and had to work at an old plant like this. Worst part wasnt the smell, it was the ducks. Ducks would swim in the water and get spooked if you walked near, flying over your head and getting that water everewear
HELL YA AUSTIN'S OWN GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY!!
Water waste plants are actually a huge source of micro plastics.
That’s really creative shot.
Im glad somebody does this line of work. I couldnt do it
So many people have no idea that the water they drink has more than likely been through one of these facilities at some point.
It used to mystify me where the solids ended up. After my first lunch at a high school cafeteria, the mystery was solved.
I learned about this via Dave Attell's show "Insomniac" like 25 years ago. Burned into my brain
Mad props to all the engineers who created these plants. We would be nowhere without these people.
i'm glad that wastewater treatment plants are a thing cause fresh and clean water is not as common as our easy access to it makes it seem
I failed the AP environmental test for the unit, but I did very well for the water treatment process
Damn. He really covered everything. Also fun fact the water returned back into rivers from wastewater plants is cleaner than drinking water.
Our local plant used to further process the solids which would go on to be mixed with the green waste from our green waste garbage bins to create a mixture used to create souls and fertilisers sold by local garden centres.
Practical Engineering has a great video on wastewater treatment and all kinds of other infrastructure and engineering topics, i'd highly recommend checking that channel out too.
Fun fact, I’m some locales the wastewater treatment is the inflow to the city water plant.
Lord Bless these people 🙏🏽 🙏🏽🙏🏽💪🏽 ain't no way i could survive doing this
Have me backing up away from my phone haha on the first part of your video 😂😅😂😅😂
You forgot the last step, which is to remove the bio-solids and spray them on a farm near you, both for the sensory enjoyment of the whole community for miles around as well as to make sure that, generations from now, that soil will still have elevated levels of heavy metals in it to contribute to whatever crop is being grown.
Thank you for your invaluable and essential labor good sir!
Man I appreciate this video.
Thank you for doing this job.
Very educational content. Definitely agree this is a vital process.
So I know it’s weird, but I’m really great full one of my middle school field trips was a visit to our local poop plant, and while it was the most foul smelling place on earth, we learned SO much about how they filter the scum, the engineering behind it all, the chemicals used. So mych great teachings from the company and their staff on such a gross, but important topic. It’s better to know where it’s going, than just leaving it and being done with it. Actually very interesting work
Hell yeah you the man thanks for explaining
Stop praying mary ur gonna go Hell she dead waiting for last day.
This is what helped build civilization!
Ah a fellow Ghostland Observatory fan :)
Not me remembering Arnold's field trip in Magic School Bus
My county goes a lot further in cleaning the water then pumps it in a huge pipe several miles to the lake we get our freshwater from . They can divert the outflow to a creek if there is a problem.
so were drinking sh!t every day 😢😢
Awesome mechanized screening!
No more pressure washers in the screen room. You forgot to mention condoms and sometimes money is also found
I found car keys, money, tampons, condoms and more
I was hoping you'd say "Then the water is transported into a facility where it is bottled up and sold as Great Value at Walmart."
If there was better education for waste disposal, we wouldn't need to pay as much taxes for separation processes like this! Gotta start at the source to fix the problem!
What I find interesting, is that this is the way nature does it. Only many many times faster.
A perfect video to scroll to while eating.
I remember seeing parasite warms living through all the treatment.
The sludge, which is leftover is usually pumped into centrifuges to be de-watered, where it now takes up less space and called cake. That cake is either burned and sent to the landfill or just sent to the landfill. They used to truck this stuff as fertilizer, but it needs to be processed further. That is too expensive.
Thanks for explanation! Nice sky btw.
Imagine being locked in the dumpster. Imagine locking your enemies in the dumpster. This knowledge is too powerful.
Legend has it, afterwards they put on big boots and stomp the poops through the grate 😂
Fun fact they use type of fish to help break it all down that's then sold to people through stores
My school had a field trip to waste treatment plant.... It stunk horribly. I disobeyed orders by leaving due to getting sick. Over all i know its vital and I appreciate you iron stomach mad lads
Sounds great but I still dont want to be downstream of the final product lol
I used to live near one, we called it the shit plant because you could smell it over 5-10 miles out on a hot humid day. Fishing over there was great though.
I’ll never forget manually scraping bar screens many moons ago. There was this really bad one that was a rotating drum - huge pain to clean and smelt like death in the summer when that stupid heavy metal door was opened.
fun little fact, water purified this way is probably cleaner than the water you drink. Cruise liners also use similar methods of cleaning wastewater
Thanks, very educational. I didn't know that!!!