Film References
*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 icy solid state, water can't escape between your fingers.
What is frozen?
“Around and around and around we go” These items are infamous for their ability to clog toilets and cause plumbing problems - even the ones that are labelled “flushable”
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 well. 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. This type of non-potable water has a salinity similar to human tears.
What is Brackish water?
If Charlie Chaplin drank these types of untreated waters, he would feel very funny.
What are greywater and 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?
Never drink stagnant river water! If you don’t boil that river water on your camping trip before you drink it, you may catch this waterborne illness.
Giardia
Steven Tyler would reclaim the night at this water treatment facility named after another 'Steven'.
What is Steven M. Clouse Water Recycling Center?
Waste water treatment plants 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?
Oh, settle down! These tanks found in WRCs use gravity to remove large solids at the beginning of the treatment process
What are Primary Clarifiers?
“Don’t just pack it – Wear your [life] jacket!” The aerobic bacteria in these WRC tanks break down organic matter using oxygen in the form of bubbles. However, all this air decreases the density of the fluid so much, some say you wouldn’t be able to swim in it.
What is an Aeration Basin?
“A triple threat” in show business is someone who can sing, act, and dance. The Steven M. Clouse WRC 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 WRC is named after the same Greek mathematician/physicist who became famous for his discoveries about buoyancy.
What is an Archimedes Screw Pump?
"Heeead, shoulders, knees and toes!" This “aromatic” portion of a WRC 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 by 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 test assures that a new water source will not have any adverse effects on existing pipe infrastructure.
What is a pipe loop test?
These "Artsy" types of wells don’t need any pumps to flow thanks to their elevation relative to their supplying aquifer.
Artesian Wells