How City Water Purification Works: Drinking and Wastewater

Cities purify millions of gallons of drinking and wastewater daily. This incredible process happens behind the scenes, day and night. Let’s take a closer look at the processes that make it all possible! Get on Patreon and help fund my 3D animation obsession! It wouldn’t feel right to put sponsorship segments in the middle of high quality educational content, so let’s try another way together: Need 3D illustration and animation? Have suggestions for what to explain next? Animagraffs can help! Let’s chat: License Animagraffs work for your own purposes See more explanations of how things work at: I use Blender 3D to create these models. It’s free and open source, and the community is amazing: Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:17 Drinking Water 0:41 Intake 1:15 Coagulation and Flocculation 2:56 Ozonation 4:29 Filtration 5:35 Final Disinfection 6:11 Clearwell (storage) 6:35 Wastewater 6:55 Headworks 7:48 Grit Chamber 8:38 Primary Clarification 10:05 Secondary Treatment 11:10 Final Clarification 11:30 Final Disinfection 11:43 Outfall