FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE聽|聽March 10, 2011
New ChemMatters video focuses on turning home sewage into drinking water
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2011 鈥� One of the most underappreciated marvels of science 鈥� the process of transforming sewage into drinkable water 鈥� gets the well-deserved spotlight in the latest episode in the American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网鈥檚 (ACS) award-winning Bytesize Science podcast series.
The high-definition video, 鈥淗ow Wastewater Goes from Polluted to Pure,鈥� is available without charge at . Based on an article in the February 2011 issue of ChemMatters,聽ACS鈥檚 quarterly magazine for high school students, the video explains how the mix of human waste, food, grease, soap and other organic materials, filled with bacteria and viruses, is removed from sewage in wastewater treatment plants.
The final product is probably cleaner than most tap water, and safe as the safest bottled water, but it actually does not go back directly to the kitchen faucet in your home. Treatment plants throughout the United States often put fully treated water into bodies of water so that it is filtered down as rainwater via the natural process known as the water cycle.
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