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Water Workshop

Join us for a workshop on understanding drinking water sources, watersheds, and water quality. Learn about surface water and groundwater, the importance of watersheds, and the challenges of water health. Explore innovative solutions and technologies, and discover career opportunities in the water industry.

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Water Workshop

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  1. Water Workshop

  2. Me. INSERT A PICTURE OF YOU WITH AND/OR YOUR FAVORITE BODY OF WATER HERE. (DELETE THIS BOX)

  3. You?

  4. Drinking Water Sources Surface Water Groundwater CA State Water Resources Control Board eldoks.com

  5. Watersheds • Everyone lives in watershed • Watersheds drains into a receiving body of water • Receiving bodies can be streams, ponds, lakes, rivers or oceans

  6. Watersheds.org

  7. 66 Watersheds115,000 miles streams & rivers3,080 lakes

  8. Groundwater

  9. Missouri Groundwater Ozark Plateaus Aquifer

  10. Your Drinking water Source? Right click on the picture. Choose “change picture” from the pop up menu Insert picture of your drinking water source Click on the words “El Dorado Lake” on the left side of the picture – change to the name of your source water. (DELETE THIS BOX) When you go to slideshow it should only show the question and then the answer (name of source and picture) after another click. Missouri River Alluvial Aquifer

  11. Worldwide Water Quality UNDP as of 2006

  12. Water health challenges • Half of all hospital beds in the world are full of people who are sick from dirty water • The average distance women travel to collect water in Africa & Asia is ~4 miles • 3.4 million people die each year from a water-related disease • 1 in 8 people lack a safe source of water • Water facts from United Nations water.org

  13. Innovation – you are the future The Omni Processor turns sewage in to bricks and water safe enough to drink and irrigate crops. A worker in Dakar, Senegal, irrigates crops using water produced by the Omni Processor.

  14. Water quality standards • Drinking water must meet State and Federal regulations before it goes into the distribution system • Federal – Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)1974 Safe Drinking Water Act • State - Missouri Department of Natural Resources

  15. Maximum Contaminant Level Primary MCLs • Enforced by MDNR • Required by law Secondary MCL • Not enforced • This is the goal

  16. Water Testing • Bacteria Turbidity • pH Organics • Alkalinity Metals • Calcium Chloride • Chlorine Sulfate • Nitrate Nitrite • Color

  17. Water Testing Example

  18. Technology - SCADA

  19. Distribution System • Water mains deliver water from the treatment plant to homes and businesses • Trace amounts of chlorine must be present even in the furthest part of the distribution system

  20. Chemistry for Pipes Cast iron pipe with scaling When pH is high scaling occurs Cement lined steel pipe Pipe corrosion When pH is low corrosion occurs

  21. Chemistry for health Chlorine kills bacteria & viruses,like this E.Coli bacteria MCL for Cl is 4 mg/L Treatment puts in Cl to keep the water disinfected throughout the system A trace amount of Cl must be detectable in water at the farthest tap

  22. Importance of Water Chemistry: The Flint Michigan Story • The image you see to the left is a picture, not the video. This video makes this template too large to upload to our website. You may access the video online here: https://youtu.be/u8-406BLWiY • If you will not have internet access during your presentation, we can share a larger version of this PowerPoint file with this video embedded into it via a cloud service such as GoogleDrive or Dropbox. Email efc@wichita.edu for help with this.

  23. Water meters • Water meters calculate the water you use so that you can be charged • How much water do you use?

  24. Water use in America The average American uses 88 gallons of water every day The poorest countries use less than 5

  25. East Bay Municipal Utility District

  26. Calculate Your Water Footprint Southwest Florida Water Management District Water Use Calculator • https://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/conservation/thepowerof10/

  27. After the Flush

  28. Where does the water go?

  29. Where does the water go?

  30. Your home sewer plumbing

  31. Wastewater CollectionKeeping sewer mains Flowing

  32. Sewer pipe Pictures Major clogs can cause major problems Tree roots can cause clogs and leaks Grease can cause pipes to clog

  33. Can’t Flush THis

  34. 4 steps to wastewater treatment

  35. Preliminary Treatment - screen • Screens trap “big stuff” • trashdiapersragsbranchescoffee groundspotato peels

  36. Primary Treatment - separate

  37. Secondary Treatment - Snack

  38. Activated Sludge at Work Rotifer ingesting filamentous bacteria in activated sludge

  39. Advanced Treatment - Disinfect UV light tubes

  40. Effluent Release Effluent from the Wichita’s Northwest Wastewater Treatment Plant flows in to a fishing pond Fish are thriving and healthy

  41. Who’s Downstream?

  42. Hydrate Your Career… Work in Water

  43. Recycling is more than pop cans and plastic bottles. We recycle water. There is no new water being made, so we have to recycle what we have. At a wastewater treatment plant that’s what we do. We turn wastewater into clean water and put it back into nature to get used by someone else. Operator • Jamie BeldenWastewater Treatment Plant Operator City of Wichita(City of Rose Hill pictured)

  44. Working in a wastewater laboratory is challenging and interesting. With a wide variety of analytical work needed to evaluate processes and meet discharge permit regulations, you will never be bored. Chemist • Rwei-Ying TrefzChemistCity of Wichita

  45. Communications When you pick a career you want to thinks about what you want to do as well as where you want to do it. Doing PR in the water industry is challenging, exciting and significant. You’re repping the greatest commodity on earth. • Mandy CawbyCustomer Relations DirectorWaterOne

  46. Regulator My job affords me the opportunity to protect both the public and environmental health. I accomplish this by enforcing regulations and providing technical and financial assistance. My job challenges me to develop creative approaches to achieve compliance • Andrew HareCapacity Development & EnforcementKansas Department of Health & Environment

  47. Biologist Biologists find a balance between ecology and sociology. We connect people to natural resources. I have been drawn to water since I was very young. The mystery of what goes on beneath the surface, combined with the interactions between land and water continues to fascinate me. • Jessica MountsFisheries BiologistKansas Department of Wildlife, Parks & Tourism

  48. Engineer I help design and build water supply systems. I feel like I’m doing something important for the generations to come. • Jerry BlaineCity of Wichita Engineer(Retired)

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