There is no mention of Aliens.

@@alex626ification Exactly.

They hired the old voiceover guy from those shows

Except I still don't know why they have a million little water towers and no other city does.

Ever seen Aerial America ?

if the water pipes are not copper u gonna have lead in it. XD Drink up!

Water gets pumped up to the tanks, and then it gravity feeds the building… it’s a smoother operation than just using pumps.

They usually use pelican birds that drop water to New Yorkers everyday. It's pretty neat

You're in luck! We have a video on that topic specifically. Search: Why New York City Still Uses Wooden Water Towers

Only people living in tall buildings have tanks. Vast majority of people in nyc get their water straight from the system

Why are tanks even needed? Does the system not have enough pressure to provide water to tall buildings the normal way?

Its a highly distracting production mistake.

Yeah, they fucked up

I would complain, but the voice over is perfectly centered, and the music is removed from the "center". It works well with stereo headphones. It's produced like the average pop/jazz music.

I live in NYC. You must visit. This city is amazing in its extremes. We have some truly amazing things and some truly awful things. It's always an experience, that is for sure.

So many rats running around too

dont go to brownsville or some parts of the bronx

@@callmeishmael_S what’s up with the Bronx ?,

NY is a bucket. Fill it with your wildest imaginations. Mine is filled with the hopes and dreams of all the rats who traveled through hell to make it big.

New York City has very good quality water. I'm constantly impressed with the engineering that brings drinking water to so many of our large cities, especially those in the Southwest.

Michael 🧐

Not all of New Jersey, and not every town gets its water from the same source.

*many tanks

Maybe the best in the US which doesn't say a lot. It has multiple chemicals in it. We use untreated water here. What a joke.

Hey o

You guys have nothing on the east coast

@@andrewquigley8938 and you guys have nothing on finland

Finally someone is thinking....fluoride is rate poison and it block the pineaglan for making us dummer

In Germany we don't add fluoride in water either. It is unimaginable!

​@bluessi2378 I'm sure the reason why Portland doesn't add fluoride to its water is because their source water has adequate amounts in it. I'm sure the same can be said for Germany but I wouldn't know.

Gary 😑

You know it! 😂

While a long video would be great, given this platform, six ten minute videos would be more fiscally successful than an hour long one so I doubt Cheddar will deviate from what they are doing now

They'd loose tons of subscribers if they did an hour long video. Maybe check out there pateron

Yeah, a lot to squeeze in! Luckily, we made a 24 minute version of this episode and all from this series. You can find them on CuriosityStream.

But did you try the water in Flint MI

I tried NYC water and i am so privileged to drink Hungarian water, you can taste chlorine in the NY tapwater especially if you put it into a water bottle and drink from it an hour later. I never experienced this with our water though i might add that our water comes from 500meter ~1500feet below ground so it doesnt really need to be treated.

@@collan580 yeah in Europe, drinking water from a tap is completely normal, even in rural areas.

@@collan580 Tasting chlorine is pretty common in most places in the US. I’d rather taste a bit of chlorine than get cholera lel

@@rainingwings449 Just because you dont use chlorine that doesnt mean you will get cholera. They use UV for killing viruses and bacteria and they have to use chlorine because their pipe system is in bad condition

Welcome To The Brooklyn World! Good Morning Brooklyn, The Clean Water Is Only One Thing About The City And There Are Actually Many Other Things That Count Towards The Greatest City In The World Status. New York City Has Great Parks, A Great Subway System, A Great Bus System, A Great Public School System, A Great Ferry System, A Great Clean Air System, The Best Firefighters, The Best Building Codes, The Best Police Officers, Great Colleges, Great Museums, Great Bridges, Great Street Grids, Great Airports That Are Improving Every Year, Great Casinos, Great Safety All Around, The Safest Streets, The Greatest Citi-Bike System, And Much More. Of Course, Let’s Not Forget That New York Is The Headquarters Of Wall Street, The Headquarters Of Two Ivy League Colleges And Many More Top Notch Universities, The Headquarters Of The U.N. Which Should Get And Extension Soon Hopefully, And So Much More.

Hmm 🤔

It's unfiltered !

We have a whole video on New York's water tanks! Search: Why New York City Still Uses Wooden Water Towers

@@cheddar Thanks! It's true, the wooden tanks do look better than metal ones.

@@shigekax Thanks Yuri - you're right - I misheard when he said unfiltered.🤐

The wooden tanks last 50-100 years. It’s also cheaper to get individual pieces up to the roof than to hire a crane and get Street permits. The wooden design is pretty simple and the two companies that monopolized the roof tank business in NYC can usually build them in a single day, which means less downtime to the occupants.

It definitely does!

Coming from a land of nothing but rainforest to the big concrete jungle of NYC. The view he gets is not like anyone else's who visits here.

Your mom happened.

Richard 😚

Was having Deja Vu the whole ep. Good catch.

Not his first rodeo anymore I think

That sounds really awesome, nature is beautiful .

No? Where did you get that idea? They're sealed. Nothing gets in.

@@kirkrotger9208 Not really, there are tons of unmaintained watertanks with damaged top lids

@@collan580 bruh they literally said they built new ones now

@@dragonhunter4469 Not every watertank is new though. A lot of apartment buildings cheap out on these kinda stuff, or the company who maintains it dont do a good enough job.

Why are you proud? It’s just a place.

Wow, I didn't know this.

Carl

Pumps. Water towers can be thought of almost as a battery that stores pressure. Without a water tank, all water pressure in tall buildings would be supplied by pump and the building would loose pressure if the pump stopped at all or too many people had their taps on at once. Water tanks allow some time where pumps can be off without losing pressure and can be drawn down to provide excess flow when the pumps alone are insufficient. They basically allow you to utilize a smaller more efficient pump by storing excess water during low usage times and allowing it to flow back downhill during high usage times to pick up the slack.

We have a whole video on the water tanks specifically. Search: Why New York City Still Uses Wooden Water Towers

Come to most of Canada tap water here is good in most places water snobs don't event notice the difference between tap and bottled

Pressure. If you have pipes coming from underground, it's hard to maintain pressure above 5 stories.

@@kirkrotger9208 Thanks :)

Pump the water up to the water tank, use the pressure to provide water to the people below. Usually easier than on demand pumping to each unit from the ground/street level.

@@andresmcavoy5765 Was just wondering, since a lot of cities (in europe for example) dont use this. Event on skyscrapers :)

@@Menjoro skyscrapers need water tank. even in europe there are actually water tanks in buildings and skyscrapers, it's just hidden unlike nyc. especially europe doesnt have much tall buildings.

Same here, never heard of New York’s supposed special water and I come from an area where the water is naturally filtered through rocks into an aquifer.

Wood is used because it's a good natural insulator and prevents freezing without the need for additives that could taint the water.

@@kirkrotger9208 yes, wood is a great building material. I wish the rest of the world used it as much as you guys do, its definitely more ecological than most other materials too

there's a whole video talkin about the thing you're wondering on this very same channel.

@@agme8045 I much rather have a non-wooden water tank. These things can rot and a lot of stuff can fall into these tanks like birds if it isnt maintained properly and unfortunately a lot of them arent maintained properly

@@dyarous im pretty sure I’ve seen it, I don’t remember much though

At first I thought this video was a joke. I'm mindblown that people think this was true lmao