infrastructure in general - even beyond IT. No one sits at home thinking: The sewer system is great! How reliably my shit vanishes from my toilet! Until it doesn’t.
I actually do. For some reason my children are fascinated where it all goes, so we’ve seems lots of videos on plumbing, in house and on the street. They’re absolutely bowled over by how it all works and it’s made me appreciate it so much more.
It’s also an enormous hygiene booster; running water, waste management etc. If you have a working water system in your neighbourhood you’re blessed. It’s one of those things Stone Age people would barely believe was real.
Which reminds me of a comment I read on Lemmy not too long ago - someone was wishing for a robot to handle the laundry. And I was like: “What do you think a washing machine is?!”
Since 9/11 they’re generally locked off from the public in the US. I attended some mass casualty and terrorism training and we talked with someone who ran their city water and sewer. He had a neat plan to radiate the city water system he helped them defend against.
That’s sad. I understand the threat for the water supply side ofc; but what would a terrorist achieve by meddling with wastewater treatment?
I live in Europe and had the opportunity to visit the water tretament facilities and wastewater treatment plant in my small town on school field trip, and have seen lots more, and much larger ones while studying to become an environmental engineer lateron.
Water supply is even more important than have a reliable shit hole. Without water our entire existence goes out the window. No flushing toilets, no washing hands, no drinking water, no cooking, no cleaning, and no bathing. I’ve had power, sewage, and water be unavailable several times. Water is by far the worst. I’d take a week long power outage or a few days without sewage over water being out for a single day.
infrastructure in general - even beyond IT. No one sits at home thinking: The sewer system is great! How reliably my shit vanishes from my toilet! Until it doesn’t.
I actually do. For some reason my children are fascinated where it all goes, so we’ve seems lots of videos on plumbing, in house and on the street. They’re absolutely bowled over by how it all works and it’s made me appreciate it so much more.
It’s also an enormous hygiene booster; running water, waste management etc. If you have a working water system in your neighbourhood you’re blessed. It’s one of those things Stone Age people would barely believe was real.
Which reminds me of a comment I read on Lemmy not too long ago - someone was wishing for a robot to handle the laundry. And I was like: “What do you think a washing machine is?!”
Now I’m thinking about where my poo goes as I sit on the toilet reading Lemmy
You guys should definitely do a field trip to a wastewater treatment plant, if you ever get the chance.
Your kids would probably have a blast.
I’ve been to so many, but I don’t know how hard it is for the general public to visit one.
Since 9/11 they’re generally locked off from the public in the US. I attended some mass casualty and terrorism training and we talked with someone who ran their city water and sewer. He had a neat plan to radiate the city water system he helped them defend against.
That’s sad. I understand the threat for the water supply side ofc; but what would a terrorist achieve by meddling with wastewater treatment?
I live in Europe and had the opportunity to visit the water tretament facilities and wastewater treatment plant in my small town on school field trip, and have seen lots more, and much larger ones while studying to become an environmental engineer lateron.
I’d say the school visits had some impact there.
Water supply is even more important than have a reliable shit hole. Without water our entire existence goes out the window. No flushing toilets, no washing hands, no drinking water, no cooking, no cleaning, and no bathing. I’ve had power, sewage, and water be unavailable several times. Water is by far the worst. I’d take a week long power outage or a few days without sewage over water being out for a single day.