History of wastewater treatment - from Hippocratic sleeve to activated sludge

[@lmendoza1970]

Very good video. However, the process you describe as the first wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is actually a purification process to treat natural water to produce potable water. It is not a WWTP. Cheers.

[@sahartravelbag2571]

I feel this covers more Eurocentric history. I believe other civilizations have had some water sewage systems including the Indus River valley and Baghdad during the Umayyad empire thousand years or more before the Age of Enlightenment.

[@sahartravelbag2571]

I think it was the Abbasid empire sorry!

[@tonytuthill]

Thank you.

[@ericlawrence9060]

I used to be a wastewater treatment plant operator a long time ago. They still don't pay much, left the field to go make some money.

[@thaungmyint9968]

Getting to know the story of how it come interesting. Thank you!

[@karl-uweschmitz3028]

Thanks Thaung

[@emmerydickinson8302]

Thank you very much for the interesting facts and information.

[@amandabankai2775]

>17th century
The Spanish built blackwater treatment plants in the American continent by the 1500s

[@JustJanitor]

This was cool

[@jayspice4987]

Sadly, this is another very Eurocentric video.

[@bilalhijjawi8860]

Typical!

[@dustinvanderplaats4347]

You had me until you mispronounced “Hippocrates”.