Across america, cities and towns, homes and businesses all depend upon one basic resource. Modern civilization and life itself would be impossible without it. Woman okay, so today, were going to look at how do we get our water . Narrator and today, its a matter of simply turning on the tap. So often, we forget about the value of water. Water is a commodity that is essential to life. 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine turning on the tap water. And now, its an expectation. Narrator over 300 Million People live in the United States. And each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. Man what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. Woman so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school . Woman somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when were finished with it. Man the Water Infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic d
Across america, cities and towns, homes and businesses all depend upon one basic resource. Modern civilization and life itself would be impossible without it. Woman okay, so today, were going to look at how do we get our water . Narrator and today, its a matter of simply turning on the tap. So often, we forget about the value of water. Water is a commodity that is essential to life. 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine turning on the tap water. And now, its an expectation. Narrator over 300 Million People live in the United States. And each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. Man what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. Woman so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school . Woman somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when were finished with it. Man the Water Infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic d
Shes well known and played in deadman walking. Thats may 9. I want to thank all volunteers and those who made this event possible. And all of you for attending. Thank you and have a good evening. Across america, cities and towns, homes and businesses all depend upon one basic resource. Modern civilization and life itself would be impossible without it. Woman okay, so today, were going to look at how do we get our water . Narrator and today, its a matter of simply turning on the tap. So often, we forget about the value of water. Water is a commodity that is essential to life. 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine turning on the tap water. And now, its an expectation. Narrator over 300 Million People live in the United States. And each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. Man what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. Woman so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school . Woman somebody has
In other words, the water coming out of a Wastewater Treatment plant often enters the watershed, flows into intakes of Drinking Water Treatment Plants, and eventually finds its way right back to our faucets. It takes huge investments to ensure that wastewater and Drinking Water Treatment Plants function properly to maintain a safe water supply. We made the initial investments in the plants and the pipes. But once we accomplished that, there was this great recognition that we had a series of issues associated with wet weather conditions. Storm events where, all of a sudden, youre dealing with a lot of water. Narrator large amounts of rainwater can cause flooding. Engineers developed two approaches to stormWater Infrastructure to transport water away from the urban environment. One approach was to carry waste and stormwater through the same pipe. This combined system was less expensive than building two individual pipe networks. And stormwater was seen as a way to flush out the sewers. T
By all means necessary how chinas resource quest is changing the world. I can heidi hsu on behalf of the board of directors and members of the killed so it is my pleasure to welcome you this evening. Overcast Elizabeth Economy id michael levi. Denied a senior fellow and director of Asian Studies currently the vice chair of the council on the future of china in sets of the border of the board for sustainable development. She runs the river runs flat and is published numerous articles including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy. She received her m. D. From stanford and a ph. D. From university of michigan. Dat the senior fellow and director of the program on Energy Security and Climate Change for the council of Foreign Relations and previously resident fellow in the Foreign Policy studies at brookings and the director of the federation of American Science as Strategic Security projects. He is the author of the power surge in the battle for americas future on terrorism in the future of a