Oh yeah, and I was in Houston Tues-Thurs last week. Got to check out a membrane filtration plant that turns murky brown water into crystal clear drinking water. I figured some of you mechanical nerds would like to see pics, I've just been too tired to upload the pics.
200 HP electric water pumps...each is the size of a small car.
Membrane filter with the top cap off.
One of 5 racks with something like 74 filtration units on each rack
Electrolysis plate for creating industrial scale quantities of chlorine dioxide, one of the strongest disinfectants and used in early stages of surface water treatment to kill off bacteria and many organisms in the water.
I think these were 60 or so HP service pumps.
I LOLed when I saw this one. Anything wrong with this eye wash station in the room full of bulk caustic and acidic solutions?
Irony is that at the time, Houston was having positive bacteriological tests in distribution and over half of the "public water supply investigators" got sick.
