Why cleaning your waste water is so difficult

I go behind the scenes at the Beenyup Water Resource Recovery Facility to uncover the science of sewage. Sponsored by Brilliant. Head to https://brilliant.org/AtomicFrontier for a 30 days trial and to get 20% off their premium annual subscription. Huge thanks to the team at WA Water Corp for letting us come film! ---------- II ---------- This video was brought to you by an unhealthy amount of coffee and our awesome Patrons at https://www.patreon.com/atomicfrontier. 0:00 Intro 0:27 What's in waste water? 1:47 Inflow and screenings 2:40 Sedimentation 4:00 Digesters 4:52 Aeration 5:18 The Sun is a Deadly Lazer 6:13 Advanced Water Recycling 7:49 But can you drink it? 8:43 Captain Sailout ---------- II ---------- Hi, I'm James. I explore the world looking for interesting engineering stories which explore complex issues in interesting ways. I hold a Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia and a Master's in Space Systems Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I'm one year into a PhD on space robotics at MIT. My website is https://www.atomicfrontieronline.com, I occasionally tweet from https://twitter.com/AtomicFrontiers, and you can join the Atomic Frontier Discord server to talk about cool engineering stuff at https://discord.gg/4QZc3jYdTR. You can help support my work and see some cool behind-the-scenes content at https://www.patreon.com/atomicfrontier.