How does Chicago get its Water? 

Chicago water is delicious

Wow 31 years in Chicago and I did not know this. Great work, it’s surprising how much we take all this for granted.

Dude, I wish I would've found this channel sooner. You have very well made videos

And the water taste good.

grew up here always wondered what that was next to navy pier. super intresting video well done man.

I’d never heard of water cribs before, very informative. Great vid!

Worked at montrose as a lifeguard, i wonder if thats the object ive always seen in the distance away from me.

I'm in Bartlett, NW corner of DuPage county. We just switched over to Chicago processed water a couple of years ago.

Well informed video, good job 👏

Great Vid!!! Can you do an update on the Colorado River water height now?

great video!

Sometimes I wonder with this water shortage will it start a migration of people moving to Chicago in the future.

Excellent video. Who knew!

My Mother works at the Jardine water plant. Largest in the world.

You might want to add $Thanks to your video pages. It goes on the "like dislike share download clip save" bar. Be sure to allow visitors and viewers to also set their own amounts (not just fixed amounts). I liked your note about reversing the river. And see a video advertised "How Chicago Reversed Its River: An Animated History" which might give some of that. Your note about California surprised me. I expect we will see more and more modular nuclear plants providing heat, pumping, and electricity for desalination. When high cost of water and electricity drives people and corporations away, at some point that becomes economic. Plus there are LOTS of companies and countries realizing the old "atomic energy" "too cheap to meter" and "the peaceful atom". Rather burn atoms safely than massive pollution from coal and oil. Especially since boiling water to drive turbines wastes more than half the energy. Boiling water with nuclear power always seemed so stupid, since I first saw it up close in 1975 when I worked briefly at Detroit Edison on Fermi II plant. Fermi I was sodium cooled and that technology could be adapted to direct nuclear to electric methods. Oh well. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation

You love the lady. I love the lady. The lady by the lake!

I think Glencoe or some adjacent town has won the best tasting tap water award multiple times (however the hell that is judged or if it’s at all legit).

I never knew thats y that was there I always see them I did not know the purpose of them

My great great grandmother single handedly dug the entire tunnel to 2-mile crib. She was paid 2 polishes with grilled onions per hour. She also invented the crib walk and made sure to keep it gangsta at all times.

Buffalo New York water is from Lake Erie.

2:52: That's 8 cribs --- not 9.

But they didn't have the technology 150 years ago to build these "cribs".

The great lakes region might become an attractive place to settle as climate change reeks havoc on the sun belt

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Lake Michigan...maybe...lol.

Chicago gets it's water from bubbly Creek actually on the bottom of water bubbly Creek we're sits in a settlement the pipes and people suck it in like a straw

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The water is drying up because of population increases - more people need more water. Climagte change is not the reason.

March 4th 1837