History & Film
*Burp!* "Better out than in I always say." Vapor is a form of water in this state of matter.
What is a gas?
"Under my umbrella, ella, ella, eh, eh." Water in this state of matter will leave you drenched!
What is liquid?
Two is company, but three is a crowd. These elements make up the water molecule.
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
"Life is a garden. Dig it." You can plant flowers in a pot, but pouring water into a pot won't make it this safe-to-drink type of water.
What is potable water?
The Great Wave Off Kanagawa depicts a place where 97% of Earth's water is located.
What is an ocean?
"Let it go, let it go!" In this solid state, water can't escape between your fingers.
What is frozen?
"Oops!.. I Did it Again..." These items are notoriously labeled flushable when they actually create clogs.
What are wipes?
Why so salty? This element found in common table salt is used to disinfect water.
What is chlorine?
A healthy person has a thousand wishes, but a sick person only has one—to get their health back. This disease is mostly contracted by drinking contaminated water.
What is cholera?
Girl with Tear by Roy Lichtenstein illustrates an abstract woman shedding a tear. Which drop contains more salt? A human tear or a drop of sea water?
What is salt water drop?
If Charlie Chaplin drank these types of untreated waters, he would feel very funny.
What are greywater or blackwater?
"Here comes the sun, doo-dun doo-doo." This radiation-based water disinfection method doesn't leave residual disinfectant.
What is ultraviolet water purification?
The Blue Man Group didn't come from here, but the San Antonio River does.
What is The Blue Hole?
"A guitar, though correct in all its parts, cannot give forth harmonies if it is without tension." These towering structures store and provide pressurized water.
What are water towers.
Steven Tyler from Aerosmith would reclaim the night at this San Antonio water treatment facility named after another Steven.
What is Steven M. Clouse Water Recycling Center?
"Whoosh!!!" Water recycling centers treat their influent to create this final product.
What is treated effluent water?
"Slide to the left, Slide to the right, Reverse, reverse!" This treatment pushes water through a membrane to remove unwanted molecules.
What is reverse osmosis?
If these tanks had a dating profile they would labeled "Ready to Settledown". These tanks found in water recycling centers use gravity to remove large solids at the beginning of the treatment process.
What are primary clarifiers or Primary Sedimentation Tanks?
"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new": -Socrates. The aerobic bacteria in these water recycling center tanks break down organic matter using oxygen in the form of bubbles.
What is an aeration basin?
“A triple threat” in show business is someone who can sing, act, and dance. The Steven M. Clouse Water Recycling Center could be considered a treatment “triple threat” as it produces these three products for reuse.
What are Water, biosolids (fertilizer), biogas (methane)?
Eureka! This piece of equipment used to lift sludge to a higher elevation in a waste recycling centers is named after the same Greek mathematician and physicist who became famous for taking a bath.
What is an Archimedes Screw Pump?
"Heeead, shoulders, knees and toes!" This “aromatic” portion of a water recycling center is where inorganic solids are removed from the plant’s influent.
What is the headworks?
OOPS! I didn't mean to int-ERUPT! This chemical compound naturally produced in volcanoes is also used to remove residual chlorine from disinfected water.
What is sulfur dioxide?
"As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint." This type of water isn't as salty as ocean water but is saltier than river water.
What is a brackish water?
These "Artsy" types of wells don’t need any pumps to flow thanks to their elevation relative to their supplying aquifer.
What are artesian wells?