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As your trusted authority for all things poo and pop culture, we considered it an obligation. When BuzzFeed posted a “How poo obsessed are you?” quiz, we wondered—based on our areas of expertise—exactly how we’d fare in the final tally. We believed it would be irresponsible of us not...
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If you watched Reading Rainbow as a kid, or if you’re still tuned in to today’s incarnation of the PBS classic, then this episode proves the theme song’s line, “I can go anywhere.” Host LaVar Burton takes a trip to and through a wastewater treatment plant. And while some...
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As swimmer Michael Phelps places more gold medals around his neck during these Olympic Games in Rio, we wondered how he’d fare in an environment more unusual than a 50-meter chlorinated pool. Southerly first-stage aeration tanks Could Phelps swim in one of these long bubbling channels known as an...
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Front: Christen Wood, Doug Dietzel, Dan Valek.Back: Karl Ellis, Jimmy Spencer, John Corn. New Orleans, here we come. In June, the District’s Operations Challenge team competed at the Ohio Water Environment Association (OWEA) competition in Aurora, Ohio, and their top finish guaranteed them a spot at national competition in...
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Turns out this viral list of 1915 “facts” rounding out 2015 is actually a fake, filled with untruths and misleading statements. But FWIW, it turns out the few about water are indeed true. Gizmodo’s Factually posted a breakdown of the list, a graphic that has made its internet rounds...
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We don’t think this is the Force George Lucas or J.J. Abrams had in mind. Still, clean water wouldn’t be the same without it. Our own treatment-plant Jedi Christen Wood shows us how force and the rarely-seen sludge “explosion” helps keep a sewer line clear and gives the Death...
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It may not be a Star Wars galaxy far far away, but when astronauts are far from home, water is a life force. Astronaut Chris Hadfield shows us how the water flows on the International Space Station, featuring a closed-loop treatment system in which the water astronauts use—even their...
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November 19 is World Toilet Day, drawing attention to the sanitation and clean-water challenges that affect 1 of every 3 people on earth. The statistics bear this out, and the facts are worth talking about. Here are 6 ways to do so without words. One out of three people...
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Some of the access tunnels in the bowels of the Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant in Cuyahoga Heights date back to the plant’s grand opening in 1928. Operator Christen Wood took us for a quick tour of the sprawling and sometimes spooky underground system, just in time for Halloween.
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VIEW THE SLIDEDECK. If you missed it, you can register for our next SewerU January 26. All participants graduate sewer cum laude with a Business major and a minor in puns. Have you ever wondered where “it” goes in Northeast Ohio? If so, register for our first ever Sewer...
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