What Happens After You Flush?

Humans have always peed and pooped, but where it goes after we’ve done our business has changed a lot. In fact: The water you just drank may well have been a part of someone’s urine just weeks ago! SciShow explains! Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/artist/52/SciShow Or help support us by subscribing to our page on Subbable: https://subbable.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Thanks Tank Tumblr: http://thankstank.tumblr.com Sources: http://www.treehugger.com/bathroom-design/the-history-of-the-bathroom-part-1-before-the-flush.html https://faculty.unlv.edu/wjsmith/smithtest/Urban-Sanitation_PreIndustrial-Japan.pdf http://www.treehugger.com/bathroom-design/history-bathroom-revisited.html http://www.greywateraction.org/content/history-sewers http://bloomingtonmn.gov/cityhall/dept/pubworks/utilitie/wastewtr/wstwtr_hist.htm http://publichealth.artsci.wustl.edu/great_stink http://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-great-stink/ http://www.wef.org/Flash/gowiththeflow_english/theflow.htm http://www.bvsde.paho.org/bvsacd/leeds/cooper.pdf http://www.wiley-vch.de/books/sample/3527312196_c01.pdf http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/treating-sewage/ http://water.me.vccs.edu/courses/env110/lesson12.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban_planning_04.shtml http://www.aero-stream.com/septic-system-owners-manual.html http://www.mwra.com/03sewer/html/sewhow.htm http://www.gbra.org/wastewater-treatment.swf http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/EM/C3EM00422H#!divAbstract http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/~/media/Publications/730.pdf http://www.fao.org/docrep/w5367e/w5367e04.htm

Comments

1. ,.
2. Yay, recycling! :D
3. its 3am here, im watching this shit video, what went wrong in my shitty life
4. mmmm sounds delicious
5. only clicked on this because i am on the toilet
6. I have Chrons Disease I feel bad for whoever drinks my super filtered poop.
7. I was literally taking a drink of water when he said that it was probably urine
8. 5:20 I can't be the only one who flushes their semen down the drain in hope of impregnating a girl.
9. you didn't have to say that first fact about urine in water -~-
10. lol I'm on the toilet
11. This is probably my favorite video of all time.
12. YOU PEOPLE HAVE RUINED MY LIFE 😭😭
13. You should make a video about this, but about México I presume they have a whole different system especially in the rural pueblos.
14. anyone else watch this while taking a shit?
15. Man I sure do love me a plate of shit.Love to wash it down with some warm piss to.
16. My poop has contribute in the growth of your veggies , yw.
17. Lol why is the last minute just the outro?
18. You need to shave "bad, really bad"
19. Who gives a shit LOL
20. Ure so wrng..
    
    
    
    
    
    
    I have septic tank not sewage waterXD