Why NYC’s Drinking Water is Better Than Any other City's

This is the story of where New York City's water comes from - perhaps the most impressive water system in the world. This video took us over six months to make, but is a project we've been dreaming up since we started Public Opinion. Thanks to the hardworking folks at the DEP for maintaining this incredible system and for giving us an inside look.

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The Team: Jack Coyne, Kieran Coyne, Henry Kornaros, Alex Fabry, Ellen Schoenfeld, Sarah Mann, Ellie Aslanian.
Title Designed by Chris Schwaar

Original Score by Kieran Coyne (these songs and others available on our Patreon)

Executive Producers:
Ben Seiler
Matt Dickoff

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[powderbluemedia]

feel like the visuals complement the storytelling seamlessly in this one, loved the maps in particular. great job y'all! -nate

[claydepositar]

My favorite kind of public opinion video

[HenryKornaros]

Okay now, how does weed get to New York City

[Alexmfabry]

production value on this one goes crazy

[JeremyCohen]

Jack taking a sip of water at the end of the video....what a wholesome moment

[starchington]

the greatest non-defense construction project in the history of Western Civilization

[CoolerQ]

Dang, now I want a 5x longer version of this video!

[marginalsam]

so happy someone finally made a video covering this

[McCheesy]

Great video as always. Maybe a weird aspect to single out, but I really want to say the color of this video was awesome. Whoever does the color grading does a bang up job. I thought this to myself especially for shots out by the reservoirs with the emerald green trees in the background.

[lazerfuchs]

Yes New York City has good water but you still need a sediment carbon and gac filter for drinking water 3 stage

[CatskillProduction]

Grew up in Shokan and on the Ashokan and that entire area. Go back several times a year to visit friends and family. Had a 1902 map of the aqueduct system in my house similar to what the library had but was unfortunately lost to a house fire. It wasn’t the final revision so it was interesting to look at all the changes they made over the next few years. Great video!

[apollofolf]

Absolutely incredible video and well worth the effort!! This is one of my favorite YouTube channels.

[JulianLamadridMusic]

water is life! 💙 amazing video once again lads, public opinion always shining a light on the heroes that make nyc possible 💥

[sistan]

Love this. So similar for how we get water in Birmingham (UK) from Wales. Sharing this within my company!

[taylernrock]

This needs to blow up, phenomenal work

[lapizrr]

Visiting all those dams and watching this video, makes it feel
More amazing! Thank u for the video !

[EstorilEm]

Cool video - wish you had more time to go into greater technical detail or show some of the valves and systems, but I’m assuming there were plenty of security and time issues.

I’m curious about flow control for the aqueduct and main tunnels - if ANY part of ANY of those systems fails, wouldn’t it have the potential to essentially see full head pressure from the upstream reservoirs and drain at the same rate?

He mentioned they were flowing at a low rate at the top, so I guess they manage flows along the way, but there were other reservoirs downstream so that wouldn’t change pressure/risk down at the city.

I’m assuming there are some huge gates and flow control systems for the main aqueduct and the three main tunnels in the city? I’ll have to research those… I’m sure it’s fascinating.

Also why not use lapel mics? These days the handhelds just kinda look… awkward.

[beardymanadventuresnz]

Brillent video! This sort of thing is so interesting, as a tourist a few years ago I followed parth of the path for water into LA while I was heading north, stoped at a bunch of places and enjoyed the history. On a large sale everything is so much more interesting. :)

[benji]

Now a tour of how the water leaves the city

[GavinWilson]

Every video yall put out is amazing. Never stop