RE: Do You Know How Your City's Wastewater Is Treated?
This is indeed a very interesting matter that you describe there - something that far too few think about, since wastewater disposal is taken for granted in our latitudes.
A few years ago, I visited a sewage treatment plant with students. We were very well guided, everything was explained very clearly. Highly interesting - I think I definitely absorbed more knowledge than my students... 😂 That's the beauty of the teaching profession: as soon as you prepare a topic, you learn a lot of new things yourself.
I was positively surprised by the smell on site. Of course it smelled special, but not - as I had expected - like a stinking cesspool.
Do You Know How Your City's Wastewater Is Treated?
Yes! We live in a very small village where everyone (okay, sometimes up to four houses together) still has their own backyard sewage system. We have three small chambers for wastewater treatment (there are flower pots on the lids...), from the last chamber almost clean water flows into one of the three treatment ponds in the village.
The sewage sludge from our chamber system is pumped out every two years. It goes to a treatment plant and is then partly used as fertilizer. Is probably quite clean... ;-)
I thought you only work on the farm :-) It turns out you are a teacher. I wonder what subject you teach students?
Usually we do not smell. But if the weather is cloudy and not too windy, then sometimes there is a bad smell. We hardly notice it, because there is a pig farm nearby, which has many fields around. According to their technology, from time to time they fertilize these fields with pork urea. This is a regional fragrant holiday :-)
Our treatment plants were built during the Soviet occupation. Therefore, it is natural that the villages, which are located 50 m from the treatment facilities, are not equipped with sewerage. But the factories and the city 8 km away have normal sewerage.
Over the last three decades, we have taken many steps toward civilization. But people are people and some in the villages have drained the water directly into the river. I assure you, everything is perfectly arranged for you. In our country, most people solve the problem of sewage by installing septic tanks, from which wastewater is then pumped out with the help of an aspiration machine and taken to treatment plants.
Hihi, I am a special education teacher in vocational education. That's where you actually teach everything. I studied German, which is also my main subject.
At the moment I'm not working at school, for personal reasons.
That sounds like sewage disposal, which has been banned in our country for decades. But you are definitely on a good way - no wonder with engineers like you... ;-)
I did not think that anyone in Germany did not know German :-)
You have a great profession, teachers shape future people. My wife is a primary school teacher. But she never worked at the school. She worked with preschoolers, children from 2 to 6 years. In my opinion, this is a very difficult job that requires a lot of patience.
Haha, you think too well of me :-) I only managed to come up with something exceptional once. I proposed a solution that would allow the company to stop consuming natural gas and save millions of dollars every month. No one understood my proposal and even laughed at it. Six months later, I was surprised to learn that my proposal was implemented, but now it was authored by the Deputy General Director. He was present at the meeting when I submitted this proposal :-)
In general, I am responsible for technical progress in the company, but 99.9% of my proposals are not accepted, because to implement them you need to invest money :-)
So Ukrainian Ukrainian teachers don't have to study before being unleashed on humanity?!... 😜
Linguistics and literature is not born in your cradle... 😉
Ouch. The actions of your Deputy General Director remind me of some very bad tricks of the career horny. Sad. But with enough self-confidence, you know it's your success. And some employees will know that too!
In fact, in my opinion, the Ukrainian language is very complex. I never managed to get an excellent grade from this course :-) There is a rule in the Ukrainian language, and then by all means at least thirty exceptions from it.
Thank you for your time for comment :-)