Albuquerque
August 29, 2015
Today we visited the Albuquerque Southside Wastewater Reclamation Plant. There are an astonishing number of processes
that go into creating the clean drinking water that we take for granted (we
were even told that some of these are unnecessary and just for the public’s
peace of mind!).
The whole process was too complicated
and too scientific for me to recount, so instead, I will
tell you a story that stayed with me.
At one stage in the process, the water
reaches a density that is less than 1 (what people are), so it is impossible to
swim in (it would be like trying to swim in air). Once, a hydro engineer fell into the tank (which at this
point in the process is still filled with sewage), and was only able to get out
by crawling along the bottom to ladders at the edge of the tank (luckily for
him, he knew exactly where they
were).
Here is a video of aerobic water:
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