How Do Water Treatment Plants Work?

For most everyone around the world, turning on your tap and getting fresh clean water is just a way of life. While this might seem to be a simple fact of modern civilization, it's a relatively new innovation in the timeline of human development.

Access to fresh water is one of the largest drivers of creating a modern society, but what allows everyone access to seemingly endless supplies of potable water? It depends on where you live, but chances are behind your tap there's a municipal water treatment plant.

There are two main types of water treatment plants: drinking water and wastewater plants. We'll be focusing in on drinking water plants here, but if you'd like to learn about how wastewater is treated, you can watch a video on the topic here.

Both types of treatment plants serve the purpose of cleaning water, but in general, wastewater treatment plants will output water, or effluent, into streams or rivers and drinking water plants, or potable water treatment plants, will output their treated water into a city's pipe distribution network.

The question still remains, how exactly does one treatment plant take dirty river or well water and turn it into water that is safe to drink? It involves a lot of processing using chemicals, filters, and removing all of the toxins and hazards from a given water source.

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[khajasplettstoesser]

I was about to go to sleep then my brain said "how is water filtered?" So I had to find out!

[ryandisanti]

Now I know why my water bill is so damn expensive.

[Crayola]

I know this was posted a long time ago but thanks to my science teacher told us to watch this video and I really should give her a water bottle after this video. Yes this is for school work

[mhchoudhurymd]

Thanks for the clean water and the people who do it.

[ilhamandreansyah]

Ilham Andreansyah - FTI UJ

Thank you very much sir for the explanation, on this occasion I learned a lot in this video explain how the flow of processing river water into dringking water . Very interesting and easy to understand.

[soniahabtom]

I love your videos. You are very straight to the point about water. I think it is going to help in My science fair project!

[breatheinandout]

thanks for this...now iam ready to write my assignment., ....

[americasalinas]

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[jonnaking]

In my town there is a VERY SMALL water treatment plant in a residential area...It has a small reservoir of water outside that resembles a swimming pool complete with LIFE PRESERVERS around it! Since it's in a residential area, I'm guessing it's not a waste water plant, but more like this one, only it VERY VERY SMALL and only ONE small basin of water I've always been curious about what goes on there.

[ssncns]

Water treatment norms in my country are too detailed and unnecessarily high when the current situation's struggling even with an average level treatment. I hope things are kept simple and reasonable. It's unrealistic to just copy the context without minding the compatibility and overall result.

[markk]

Helpful Video🙋😊
Thanks a lot for extra knowledge like..
Activated Carbon..UV..and much more😄😄

[MasterBasser]

literally sat here designing a maintenance free pool filter for 40, 000 gallons. pain in the absolute ass.

[JQB]

the radiation hazard signs make it confusing

[FluffScripts]

I need to summarize this for my home work >:(

[doodoobrn]

Anyone seen any good studies about how sterilized, chemical treated water affects the microbiome?

[MarcFavorites]

As a licensed water treatment operator, I was expecting a super basic and dumbed down explanation, but this is a really accurate overview. I was mostly surprised that some of the other lesser known treatment options were explained.

[bleepbloopbleep]

Who else is watching for school work during quarantine

[darrelllancaster]

This is truly one of the most important jobs out there. To everyone who does this, Thanks.

[tomwolfe]

When do “THEY “ add the mind control nanobots?

[mikewagar]

20 years in water plants (I now run one) and I never thought about a YouTube channel. Very cool.
I'm at a 17.4 mgd plant in Michigan now, looking forward to a video on this type of plant. I'd be happy to offer any info.