How does Chicago get its Water?

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Where does your water come from? Well, if you live in Chicago, the answer is obviously the Great Lakes.
But delivering water from Lake Michigan to taps across Chicagoland requires a massive network of infrastructure, most of which goes unnoticed on a daily basis.
So how does Chicago get it's water? Let's take a brief look at the history of the city's water infrastructure, from water cribs in the lake, to large purification plants, to city pipes. We'll also look at some of the environmental factors that have shaped Chicago's water infrastructure. And finally, why thinking about where water comes from will be increasingly important in the coming century.
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@nannerz1994 11 ай бұрын

Chicago water is delicious

@elip8732 Жыл бұрын

Wow 31 years in Chicago and I did not know this. Great work, it’s surprising how much we take all this for granted.

@nannerz1994 11 ай бұрын

I used to be a tour guide in Chicago and my favorite thing was teaching locals stuff they didn't know! You should definitely hit up one of the tourist tours cuz you'll learn so much

@The_ZeroLine Ай бұрын

You’ve never looked out the lake and seen the cribs? They always fascinated me as kid (and still do actually).

@mravocadoman2904 2 ай бұрын

Dude, I wish I would've found this channel sooner. You have very well made videos

@japangjenkins8745 Жыл бұрын

And the water taste good.

@gwynbr Жыл бұрын

I’d never heard of water cribs before, very informative. Great vid!

@jjjaxxPlays Жыл бұрын

grew up here always wondered what that was next to navy pier. super intresting video well done man.

@ragingflare9537 Жыл бұрын

Worked at montrose as a lifeguard, i wonder if thats the object ive always seen in the distance away from me.

@GaryLASQ 11 ай бұрын

I'm in Bartlett, NW corner of DuPage county. We just switched over to Chicago processed water a couple of years ago.

@msbgone Ай бұрын

Great Vid!!! Can you do an update on the Colorado River water height now?

@ninosanvithian8116 Жыл бұрын

Well informed video, good job 👏

@iwouldliketoorderanumber1b79 Жыл бұрын

Sometimes I wonder with this water shortage will it start a migration of people moving to Chicago in the future.

@MegaMantim Жыл бұрын

Very definitely, the big thinkers think this will start happening to crisis proportions in a few decades...The rust belt will suffer growing pains again...

@midnighturtle13 Жыл бұрын

great video!

@KingSpaceySprockets Жыл бұрын

My Mother works at the Jardine water plant. Largest in the world.

@RichardKCollins Жыл бұрын

You might want to add $Thanks to your video pages. It goes on the "like dislike share download clip save" bar. Be sure to allow visitors and viewers to also set their own amounts (not just fixed amounts). I liked your note about reversing the river. And see a video advertised "How Chicago Reversed Its River: An Animated History" which might give some of that. Your note about California surprised me. I expect we will see more and more modular nuclear plants providing heat, pumping, and electricity for desalination. When high cost of water and electricity drives people and corporations away, at some point that becomes economic. Plus there are LOTS of companies and countries realizing the old "atomic energy" "too cheap to meter" and "the peaceful atom". Rather burn atoms safely than massive pollution from coal and oil. Especially since boiling water to drive turbines wastes more than half the energy. Boiling water with nuclear power always seemed so stupid, since I first saw it up close in 1975 when I worked briefly at Detroit Edison on Fermi II plant. Fermi I was sodium cooled and that technology could be adapted to direct nuclear to electric methods. Oh well. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation

@Bristerboy922 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Who knew!

@A_Chicago_Man 3 ай бұрын

You love the lady. I love the lady. The lady by the lake!

@The_ZeroLine Ай бұрын

I think Glencoe or some adjacent town has won the best tasting tap water award multiple times (however the hell that is judged or if it’s at all legit).

@latyrisday665 2 ай бұрын

I never knew thats y that was there I always see them I did not know the purpose of them

@The_ZeroLine Ай бұрын

My great great grandmother single handedly dug the entire tunnel to 2-mile crib. She was paid 2 polishes with grilled onions per hour. She also invented the crib walk and made sure to keep it gangsta at all times.

@295g295 Жыл бұрын

Buffalo New York water is from Lake Erie.

@MyNathanking Жыл бұрын

2:52: That's 8 cribs --- not 9.

@maryhanneman7491 Жыл бұрын

Add $Thanks!

@kathleenlovett1958 Жыл бұрын

But they didn't have the technology 150 years ago to build these "cribs".

@opnwndo Жыл бұрын

Lake Michigan...maybe...lol.

@AlexCab_49 Жыл бұрын

The great lakes region might become an attractive place to settle as climate change reeks havoc on the sun belt

@builtworldcontent Жыл бұрын

Return of the rust belt.

@sob361 Жыл бұрын

Chicago gets it's water from bubbly Creek actually on the bottom of water bubbly Creek we're sits in a settlement the pipes and people suck it in like a straw