Why Sewers Around the World Keep Overflowing

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  • Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024

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  • @MinuteEarth
    @MinuteEarth  4 года назад +211

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  • @GeeTransit
    @GeeTransit 4 года назад +1581

    City 1: We're gonna divert water to the river before it enters the sewer.
    City 2: We're gonna build rooftop gardens to soak up some of the storm water
    Chicago: *poop tank*

    • @Star-system
      @Star-system 4 года назад +46

      F in the chat for person digging for diamonds.
      PS - Minecraft

    • @Beegrene
      @Beegrene 4 года назад +45

      I miss Chicago and its cavalier attitude towards nature. Remember this is the same city that decided its river was backwards and turned the whole thing around.

    • @DarkNexarius
      @DarkNexarius 4 года назад +7

      @@Beegrene River was backwards what?

    • @eudofia
      @eudofia 4 года назад +11

      @@Beegrene Yeah what? Please explain.

    • @nosferathu258
      @nosferathu258 4 года назад +16

      "if its stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid"

  • @miatra4954
    @miatra4954 4 года назад +463

    those she ra characters are so cute in your guys' style!! mermista, perfuma and adora would be proud.

    • @petartsankov8655
      @petartsankov8655 4 года назад +11

      Omg! I didn't realise that! Thank you!

    • @chongjunxiang3002
      @chongjunxiang3002 4 года назад +10

      Now I am waiting for someone like Jeremy goes something like "MinuteEarth gone WOKE"
      and proceed looking at 2:24 for 10 minutes.

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 4 года назад +15

      It's fitting since Mermista literally bent sewage water in the show in season 1 when they went to the Fright Zone.

    • @deletedandabandonedaccount8149
      @deletedandabandonedaccount8149 4 года назад +3

      She ra is bad

    • @ponypals1780
      @ponypals1780 4 года назад +1

      miatra ur speaking my language

  • @rjhrjh3
    @rjhrjh3 4 года назад +99

    In Australia, we always have had separate storm and sewage pipes.

    • @fatsquirrel75
      @fatsquirrel75 4 года назад +16

      Yeah, today I learned most of the world doesn't have separate systems. It's a no-brainer.

    • @Wolfsification
      @Wolfsification 3 года назад +5

      Maybe your cities aren't as old?

    • @rjhrjh3
      @rjhrjh3 3 года назад +4

      @@Wolfsification I do not see how that is relevant. Sewers were not laid down until the second half of the nineteenth century or later. Most cities are far older than that.

    • @unserkatzenland8884
      @unserkatzenland8884 3 года назад +2

      @@rjhrjh3 modern ones only, the actual 1st large scale city sewage system was built by the Romans.

    • @5hiftyL1v3a
      @5hiftyL1v3a 3 года назад +2

      There are so many Australian things like this - it seems so simple and obvious, and then I look at what the rest of the world is doing.
      I like living here.
      Have you seen how much water is in an American toilet??!? It filled almost all the way to the brim! Your ball would almost rest on the water. Its insanity.
      After watching this its no wonder we call them Sepos.

  • @zakiducky
    @zakiducky 4 года назад +21

    Ah, combined sewage overflow systems. I remember fondly learning about these in architecture school. I remember even more fondly discovering a CSO outlet flowing out into the East River from just underneath the United Nations headquarters. Seemed a bit poetic.

  • @N1ccK123
    @N1ccK123 4 года назад +10

    Maybe interesting to note is that many countries around the world, like Denmark, the Netherlands and Australia (with the exception on the very core of some older cities), have these seperate systems and are planting a lot of green already. However you probably already knew that. Thanks for these videos, I'm really enjoying these sewer/water related ones!

    • @uis246
      @uis246 2 месяца назад

      I think this is how this is in every European country including European-by-two-cities Kazahstan

  • @mathematicalmatt
    @mathematicalmatt 4 года назад +207

    Adora, Mermista, and Perfuma?!?! YES!

  • @RPGRelicHunter
    @RPGRelicHunter 4 года назад +120

    Poop-pocalypse, your word of the day.
    Noun, Definition:
    1. The complete final destruction of the world, as described in the biblical book of Revelations, but with poop.
    2. A poop related event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale.
    "This city is heading for a poop-pocalypse if we don't fix the sewers now!"

    • @l4pin
      @l4pin 4 года назад +5

      Can't believe they didn't go with "A-poo-calypse"

    • @playerscience
      @playerscience 3 года назад +1

      Lmfao 😹😹😹😹

  • @arewealone6376
    @arewealone6376 4 года назад +210

    Flooded sewers
    Pennywise: No sir No sir No sir

    • @aureavita8653
      @aureavita8653 4 года назад +9

      F for pennywise

    • @bluecat5669
      @bluecat5669 4 года назад +5

      YeSsS sIrrRrR

    • @onlyoddity
      @onlyoddity 4 года назад +5

      This makes me imagine Pennywise dressing up as Maria Reynolds in the sewers

    • @ccaffie1231
      @ccaffie1231 4 года назад +5

      @@onlyoddity I need to draw this.

    • @onlyoddity
      @onlyoddity 4 года назад +3

      @@ccaffie1231 If you do, for the love of god, send a link

  • @VexMage
    @VexMage 4 года назад +21

    "Let's back up!" I'm sure that wasn't intended but I loled 🤣

    • @ryanyuan9592
      @ryanyuan9592 4 года назад

      Huh, you actully use that right

  • @jettthewolf3143
    @jettthewolf3143 4 года назад +191

    is it just me or do those 3 characters at the end look like mermista, purfuma, and adora from sheRa?

    • @cl0p38
      @cl0p38 4 года назад +4

      No it isn't only you!

    • @bluecat5669
      @bluecat5669 4 года назад +3

      Just you m8

    • @itisdevonly
      @itisdevonly 4 года назад +9

      that's clearly intentional

    • @deus_ex_machina_
      @deus_ex_machina_ 4 года назад +7

      What is SheRa and why does seemingly everyone else a fan of it?

    • @jettthewolf3143
      @jettthewolf3143 4 года назад +11

      Deus Ex Machina well my fellow youtube commenter buddy she ra and the princess of power is an amazing of women impowerment . it also has great representation of different skin colors body type genders and sexualities it is a great show to watch and i would recommend it to anyone! it’s all ages so so if your younger you will love the action and funny parts of the show but it also goes into deeper
      concepts like being abandoned and finding out your identity all in all great show 10/10 should watch

  • @danbrellis
    @danbrellis 4 года назад +89

    I'm sorry is that an oddish hanging out in that garden at 2:09

    • @apoorvraj1782
      @apoorvraj1782 4 года назад +5

      Great vision I must say

    • @TheLeolee89
      @TheLeolee89 4 года назад +1

      It is sort of the personality of this channel. They tend to make a lot of Pokemon cameo in their video.

    • @Dalekscientist
      @Dalekscientist 4 года назад +1

      Also she-ra characters.

    • @TheLeolee89
      @TheLeolee89 4 года назад

      @@Dalekscientist Really? In most of their video? I am not familiar with She Ra. So, I don't really noticing them even when they make a cameo.

    • @Dalekscientist
      @Dalekscientist 4 года назад +1

      @@TheLeolee89 no. Not most of their videos. I was just talking about that specific scene.

  • @Smartcoversystems
    @Smartcoversystems 4 года назад +4

    More than 15 years ago SmartCover founders and inventors saw a need to detect impending sewer spills. We really enjoyed your video and would be happy to join a podcast to share how we're helping sewer operators keep the environment out of the sewers and sewage out of the environment.

  • @shmeb5544
    @shmeb5544 4 года назад +42

    2:15 is that mermista and perfuma from she-ra? just wondering becasue they kinda look like it

  • @danthibodeau8549
    @danthibodeau8549 4 года назад +69

    I almost forgot to put in the time crystals..

  • @frikativos
    @frikativos 4 года назад +9

    Where I come from this happens almost every single time it rains with a bit of intensity, no need for super storms to happen, and some years it can rain several times (like more than 3 or 4 times).

    • @ThePigeonBrain
      @ThePigeonBrain 3 года назад

      Where do you come from?

    • @frikativos
      @frikativos 3 года назад

      @@ThePigeonBrain Lanzarote, Canary Islands.

  • @MegaDragoz
    @MegaDragoz 4 года назад +15

    I loved that She-Ra reference at the end

  • @rogerwilco2
    @rogerwilco2 4 года назад +3

    My country has mostly separated the rainwater and sewage systems before 2017 and has been building separate systems for new development for well over a decade.
    There are some rural areas where this is not feasible, but I understand that for all the major cities and towns, this is now mandatory and complete.

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein1004 4 года назад +19

    Minuteearth: making poop cute since 2013

  • @3rkid
    @3rkid 4 года назад +2

    Big thanks to the engineers and everyone involved in building and maintaining these systems.

  • @TheScienceBiome
    @TheScienceBiome 4 года назад +210

    I love the new narrator but lowkey miss Emily

    • @cloveraev
      @cloveraev 4 года назад +8

      wait, did something happen?

    • @cjinanutshell244
      @cjinanutshell244 4 года назад +9

      Emily is not going to be a narrator anymore?

    • @gamingrandomganggames149
      @gamingrandomganggames149 4 года назад +1

      @@cjinanutshell244 nooo

    • @Aesculathehyena
      @Aesculathehyena 4 года назад +14

      Narrators trade out on MinuteEarth. My favourite is Kate.

    • @cjinanutshell244
      @cjinanutshell244 4 года назад +16

      @@Aesculathehyena ohh i thought it just depends on the vid who becomes the narrator

  • @EllpaFox47
    @EllpaFox47 8 месяцев назад +1

    Reminder
    When installing that newfangled sewer system, Chicago’s buildings were literally put on jackscrews and lifted several feet up

  • @virt1one
    @virt1one 4 года назад +1

    I suspect a lot of cities have sewer overflow tanks. It's a cheap stopgap in cases where runoff could overload waste treatment. In my city, they're also trying to separate stormwater from sewage. One big contributor is that older housing editions connected their foundation drainage tiles directly into the sewer. They're forcing homeowners to have their foundation tile disconnected from the sewer, and it's quite expensive. (it usually involves jackhammering up parts of the basement slab)

  • @jakelowe3226
    @jakelowe3226 4 года назад +3

    The city of Ottawa, Canada's national captial, is almost finished building a large set of tunnels called the combined sewage storage tunnel to temporary store overflow much like what you are describing for Chicago

  • @CG_Hali
    @CG_Hali 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for making me doubly grateful for the new septic system was have and living on top of the mountain where the water doesn't get contaminated by others first. Even more happy we moved from the city.

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu 4 года назад +1

    It's good to know that there are multiple ideas for resolving the problem. I especially like the roof gardens idea.

  • @flyingnapalm11
    @flyingnapalm11 4 года назад +3

    In my city (Bengaluru, india) we have overflowing drains onto the road not only because the separate rainwater ditches are always clogged but also because of the city planners underestimating overpopulation.

  • @alexanderx33
    @alexanderx33 4 года назад +1

    Chicago's not the only one. San Fransico already has giant underground vaults for combined sewer stormflow. This is a very old problem btw, not actually getting worse from land use, since the areas that are old enough to have combined sewers (no longer allowed by code) were completely paved long ago thus new impervious surfaces contribute to discrete stormsewers, not combined sewers. As for increased storm intensity, that depends where but generally yes greater heat means more water in the atmosphere so when it dumps out there is more to dump.

  • @kluzius
    @kluzius 3 года назад +1

    Who knew the characters of she-ra were so good at fixing sewer systems and helping them

  • @patje89
    @patje89 4 года назад +7

    Rest of the world: To expensive to separate the sewer system.
    Dutch: Hold my beer, half way done!

    • @cageybee7221
      @cageybee7221 4 года назад +1

      here in indiana, US, we have been trying to seperate the sewers for like 20 years.

    • @patje89
      @patje89 4 года назад

      @@cageybee7221 How does that work out over there?

  • @Т1000-м1и
    @Т1000-м1и 3 года назад +1

    For the first day back from the real estate sector right away with anything actively looking to learn English in the comments asked me to do this for the most part where you are at your big

  • @jaypaans3471
    @jaypaans3471 4 года назад +3

    0:39 "Let's back up" ... lol, good one!

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад +47

    A sewer is paradise for gators. And some turtles that are obsessed with pizza

  • @viveladecadence
    @viveladecadence 4 года назад +20

    2:24 You missed the opportunity to say "a-poo-calypse".

  • @SandTheNub
    @SandTheNub 4 года назад +46

    Never have I ever heard someone say "poopwater" so many times in less than 5 minutes
    *Hmm... Interesting*

  • @masi416
    @masi416 4 года назад +2

    Where I live we have two seperat sewer systems, one for rain water and one for poop, they never meet.

  • @NaudVanDalen
    @NaudVanDalen 5 месяцев назад

    Fun fact: On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to the Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below.

  • @EdgarRenje
    @EdgarRenje 4 года назад

    In Germany more and more cities also constructing tanks to save the water for the moment of a storm and then slowly release it into the rivers. Most of them are underneath the ground.

  • @sertaki
    @sertaki 4 года назад +5

    That She-Ra reference at the end XD

  • @umi3017
    @umi3017 4 года назад +1

    MinuteEarth: explain the problem in few minutes.
    Cityskyline player: get the idea by about the same time when first time playing the game.

  • @BlizzardofKnives
    @BlizzardofKnives 4 года назад +15

    2:23 She-Ra reference?

    • @NetAndyCz
      @NetAndyCz 4 года назад +1

      haha yes, good catch.

  • @JustADioWhosAHeroForFun
    @JustADioWhosAHeroForFun 4 года назад +83

    Sewers kept overflowing? That _stinks_

  • @kipuvi9181
    @kipuvi9181 4 года назад +1

    Love the Shera refrence

  • @KuruGDI
    @KuruGDI 4 года назад +8

    2:28 Is he really recording the sond of toxic poop water for this video?

    • @cageybee7221
      @cageybee7221 4 года назад +3

      i believe that is a geiger counter.

  • @bridgetdonovan3290
    @bridgetdonovan3290 4 года назад

    broo i remember minuteearth i used to watch this every day in my class when i was younger lol

  • @fakechemicals
    @fakechemicals 4 года назад +1

    Oh man, I just assumed it was all my fault. Thanks for making this video, now I can poop without guilt!

  • @TheScienceBiome
    @TheScienceBiome 4 года назад +1

    This video was pretty *sick!*

  • @nonexistantman5797
    @nonexistantman5797 4 года назад

    I’m learning 20x more faster then in class while watching them

  • @bscorvin
    @bscorvin 4 года назад

    Boy there is nothing like playing this in the background and then looking up and suddenly seeing Adora and co. stopping a Poopmergency

  • @WeatherManToBe
    @WeatherManToBe 4 года назад

    So happy my million pop city has been doing 2 seperate systems for 2 generations and has nearly replaced all combined sewers 😌

  • @zacharyhenderson2902
    @zacharyhenderson2902 4 года назад

    Older sewer systems weren't designed to handle the capacity we require of them today and they were also built to capture storm water

  • @iwontliveinfear
    @iwontliveinfear 4 года назад

    Short answer, we make too much crap.
    I'm glad Tampa was built on a split system. The down side is that our storm water runoff isn't treated at all.
    Every storm drain has a paint maker "drains directly to bay" reminding people to be careful what they dump where.

  • @MrKillJoy200
    @MrKillJoy200 4 года назад

    On a Little off-topic, I’ve actually been to Lake Michigan on holiday; The place actually looks more like an ocean then a deep lake, especially with the sand everywhere.

  • @STANNco
    @STANNco 4 года назад +1

    bringing new meaning to the term "in case of crap"

  • @legitimate8463
    @legitimate8463 4 года назад +24

    Sewers do not spew THAT often, but leaning their cause is interesting.

    • @MarcoDieter
      @MarcoDieter 4 года назад +10

      Here is Sarasota Fl they are actually very common. The processing facility discharge untreated water all the time. Its just not that news worthy and most people dont know about it!

  • @eldestisland4520
    @eldestisland4520 4 года назад

    Well you just got yourself a new sub to In Deep :)

  • @_kc5892
    @_kc5892 4 года назад +2

    I understand the point

  • @daz184o_o6
    @daz184o_o6 4 года назад

    Man that chicago poop tank sounds like a great place for a swim

  • @ourtube1128
    @ourtube1128 4 года назад

    Thanks for these videos! They help me to understand more areas that I wouldn't have even considered learning about!
    Thank you!

  • @hannahwalters3602
    @hannahwalters3602 4 года назад

    Interesting. Have a blessed day

  • @charlielerman8530
    @charlielerman8530 4 года назад

    I & I or inflow and infiltration are big factors as well. Chemical grouting with NSF 61(potable water rate) approved grouts helps mitigate the amount of water that enters the sanity system while also preserving infrastructure.

  • @IraJavier
    @IraJavier 4 года назад

    Happened recently here in Toronto back in July... poop overflowed into the lake after a rainstorm. My regular canoe session was less fun that week.

  • @kikiconure3629
    @kikiconure3629 3 года назад

    Certain Places: Creates Fancy Sewers
    Fancy Sewers: LET IT GO, LET IT GOOOO

  • @LivingSquirel
    @LivingSquirel 4 года назад

    My town just cut off the water run offs that used to run into the sewer And then said meh to the homes basements that flood since the drains no longer do anything or go anywhere. Yay!

  • @ariyantolim2197
    @ariyantolim2197 4 года назад

    I burst out when you said poopacalypse.... it should be added to new edition oxford dictionary 😆

  • @artacrosstheuniverse
    @artacrosstheuniverse 4 года назад +2

    2:23 someone’s been watching She-Ra

  • @matthewmcneany
    @matthewmcneany 4 года назад +2

    Me: eating my dinner
    Also me: clicks on this video.

  • @tulibudouchoo
    @tulibudouchoo 4 года назад

    Huch, but the Chicago river doesn't flow into lake michigan, it goes the other way. Are you suggesting it reverses flow direction with drastic rainfalls?

  • @pushingp4764
    @pushingp4764 3 года назад +1

    The Chicago River doesn't flow into lake Michigan, it's actually the other way around

  • @HolyManta
    @HolyManta 4 года назад

    Build drainwater reservoirs, process the excess water until way after the rains

  • @matthewleong2726
    @matthewleong2726 3 года назад

    you should cover Singapore's sewage and water systems.

  • @bigmanimation
    @bigmanimation 4 года назад +3

    1:57 is that grass block from minectaft?

  • @desatriani
    @desatriani 4 года назад +3

    Yay I'm Early, Love Your Vids!

    • @4UV10
      @4UV10 4 года назад

      Also me

    • @public_3n3my39
      @public_3n3my39 4 года назад

      We don’t care if your early, just watch the video

    • @alverofathir
      @alverofathir 4 года назад

      @@public_3n3my39 you care enough that you made a reply

    • @public_3n3my39
      @public_3n3my39 4 года назад

      Alvero Fathirr nah I’m tried of these replies and fucking pisses me off. Just watch the damn video

  • @Raprada
    @Raprada 3 месяца назад +1

    Watching this when I’m taking a dump made me flow better idk why

  • @maybexsuma2005
    @maybexsuma2005 4 года назад +3

    now this is content

  • @ceeplusthree
    @ceeplusthree 2 года назад

    I've heard from several sources that there are NOT more mega storms happening. Where did you guys get that information?

  • @diamanatees
    @diamanatees 4 года назад

    Everyone has to see this

  • @barnowl8563
    @barnowl8563 4 года назад

    Also, some cities try limited emergency treatment (such as 2 guys standing in the rain pouring buckets of chlorine in the sewage as it flows past, or limited settling times in alternating settling tanks) it's not a good system, but it's better than nothing.

  • @RealCadde
    @RealCadde 4 года назад

    Yeah, the best solution right now is to make mega buffers like a few cities have been doing. Storage tanks underground that can hold several olympic swimming pools worth of water.

  • @MarcoDieter
    @MarcoDieter 4 года назад

    Another possible solution to help with the problem would be to change where discharges happen. In Florida when discharges do happen it is directly into the coastal estuaries! Extending the discharges out to the deeper offshore regions would help a lot but would not really be an end all solution.

  • @PandaPanda-rx9wt
    @PandaPanda-rx9wt 4 года назад +1

    This is a serious message we gotta hold our shit to save the world

  • @harry-wl9il
    @harry-wl9il 4 года назад +1

    Love your content

  • @teddy4534
    @teddy4534 4 года назад

    2:28 he looks so happy to be holding a microphone to runoff

  • @Censtudios
    @Censtudios 4 года назад

    I was gonna say, the sewage system in the Netherlands already separates the different sewers, for as long as I can remember. So I was kinda confused at the start of the video when you said the opposite is true 😂

  • @juliannahedrix6140
    @juliannahedrix6140 4 года назад

    You guys are the best

  • @ryanladell3350
    @ryanladell3350 4 года назад

    Milwaukee already had mega tunnels to store excess sewage

  • @ericnickell3800
    @ericnickell3800 4 года назад

    Every time a mega storm hits a city the nostalgia critic say “pooop”

  • @Diapolo10
    @Diapolo10 4 года назад

    I'm glad Conker's Bad Fur Day warned us of this years ago.

  • @yzstormer
    @yzstormer 4 года назад

    Well, that's our Chicago!

  • @stankyfx6001
    @stankyfx6001 Год назад

    Overflows have happened since the beginning of time. Because of all the nutrients it gives back to the environment.

  • @inguunenkhtaivan9146
    @inguunenkhtaivan9146 4 года назад

    Poopocalypse, the most unheard thing in the world until you released this video.

  • @alex_zetsu
    @alex_zetsu 4 года назад

    I was wondering why they didn't just build a poopmergency overflow tank and then you said Chicago was doing just that. I just hope the workers don't infect each other.

  • @thBarkingSpider
    @thBarkingSpider 4 года назад

    Mr. Lahey had been warning y'all for years! May his soul shit in peace.

  • @3possumsinatrenchcoat
    @3possumsinatrenchcoat 4 года назад

    we had a septic tank buried in our front yard in the suburbs as a kid that had begun settling at a bigger and bigger angle tilted towards our house. it was... not a good time whenever it got blocked up, which was constantly.

  • @milo_alstar
    @milo_alstar 4 года назад

    The same thing happened in the capital of Poland in March this year

  • @evanorizam5388
    @evanorizam5388 3 года назад

    Mermista and Perfuma are at 2:12, and Adora is at 2:17

  • @Frikiman_H
    @Frikiman_H 4 года назад +2

    "Poopocalypse"
    Should've said "Shitstorm".

  • @typryor2227
    @typryor2227 4 года назад +1

    Warning: Do not show this to a 5 year old! They will suffocate from laughter.

  • @scythal
    @scythal 3 года назад +1

    And here my brain thought "it's people eating more Taco Bell"

  • @JustBlixen
    @JustBlixen 4 года назад +2

    @bitu sweet was the first