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Sybil Derrible

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

Those particles tend to be negatively charged. So essentially, no matter how long you let it sit there, they're like little magnets that just expel one another. So it's never really going to sit to the bottom of a tank. And so you put some chemicals to neutralize that negative charge, and then you just let gravity do its job.

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

Those particles tend to be negatively charged. So essentially, no matter how long you let it sit there, they're like little magnets that just expel one another. So it's never really going to sit to the bottom of a tank. And so you put some chemicals to neutralize that negative charge, and then you just let gravity do its job.

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And so that means all those little flocks are going to settle at the bottom of the basin, and then all the greases are going to float at the top. So you skim all those greases from the top, you remove everything from the bottom, and then you're left with clear water, but it's still not good water because it's got a lot of diluted stuff, you know, nasty stuff.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And so that means all those little flocks are going to settle at the bottom of the basin, and then all the greases are going to float at the top. So you skim all those greases from the top, you remove everything from the bottom, and then you're left with clear water, but it's still not good water because it's got a lot of diluted stuff, you know, nasty stuff.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And so that means all those little flocks are going to settle at the bottom of the basin, and then all the greases are going to float at the top. So you skim all those greases from the top, you remove everything from the bottom, and then you're left with clear water, but it's still not good water because it's got a lot of diluted stuff, you know, nasty stuff.

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

but also detergents and soap and everything. And so then what you do after that is you leverage nature. And by that, I mean that all that disgusting stuff that I just talked about is actually amazing food for microbes. So then you use biofilters and as the water just goes down the biofilters, all those microbes feed on all that stuff.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

but also detergents and soap and everything. And so then what you do after that is you leverage nature. And by that, I mean that all that disgusting stuff that I just talked about is actually amazing food for microbes. So then you use biofilters and as the water just goes down the biofilters, all those microbes feed on all that stuff.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

but also detergents and soap and everything. And so then what you do after that is you leverage nature. And by that, I mean that all that disgusting stuff that I just talked about is actually amazing food for microbes. So then you use biofilters and as the water just goes down the biofilters, all those microbes feed on all that stuff.

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And then after that, then you tend to have some pretty clear water and you can put some ozone or you can use some UV light to kill whatever is left there. And then you really see it to the environment. And what does that mean?

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And then after that, then you tend to have some pretty clear water and you can put some ozone or you can use some UV light to kill whatever is left there. And then you really see it to the environment. And what does that mean?

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And then after that, then you tend to have some pretty clear water and you can put some ozone or you can use some UV light to kill whatever is left there. And then you really see it to the environment. And what does that mean?

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

In the sea, in the river, usually a river, you know. That's why you tend to have water treatment plants upstream of a river and then wastewater treatment plants downstream of a river. One of the things I love to tell people when they fly is when you fly, when you take on a border plane and you start to ascend, look at what's out there. And very often you'll see a wastewater treatment plant.

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

In the sea, in the river, usually a river, you know. That's why you tend to have water treatment plants upstream of a river and then wastewater treatment plants downstream of a river. One of the things I love to tell people when they fly is when you fly, when you take on a border plane and you start to ascend, look at what's out there. And very often you'll see a wastewater treatment plant.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

In the sea, in the river, usually a river, you know. That's why you tend to have water treatment plants upstream of a river and then wastewater treatment plants downstream of a river. One of the things I love to tell people when they fly is when you fly, when you take on a border plane and you start to ascend, look at what's out there. And very often you'll see a wastewater treatment plant.

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Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

You'll see huge circles with water. You don't really know what it is, but it's a wastewater treatment plant. And the reason why you see that is because airports tend to be built wherever there was space. And that used to be normally in like low marshland or in a place that used to flood a lot. And that's usually downstream of a river.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

You'll see huge circles with water. You don't really know what it is, but it's a wastewater treatment plant. And the reason why you see that is because airports tend to be built wherever there was space. And that used to be normally in like low marshland or in a place that used to flood a lot. And that's usually downstream of a river.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

You'll see huge circles with water. You don't really know what it is, but it's a wastewater treatment plant. And the reason why you see that is because airports tend to be built wherever there was space. And that used to be normally in like low marshland or in a place that used to flood a lot. And that's usually downstream of a river.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And so that's why you have the wastewater treatment plant there and the airport just next door.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And so that's why you have the wastewater treatment plant there and the airport just next door.

Something You Should Know
Ridiculous Rules of the English Language & How Infrastructure Keeps Cities Moving

And so that's why you have the wastewater treatment plant there and the airport just next door.