Is Poland's tap water really protected by clams?

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There's a lot of articles written about how tap water in Warsaw is constantly tested by a small team of clams. It felt like a hoax to me: so I went to find out. ▪ Thanks to MPWiK Warsaw: www.mpwik.com.pl/
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@TomScottGo Год назад

I went to a lot of effort to prove this, but it's like Carl Sagan said: extraordinary clams require extraordinary evidence.

@Rensune Год назад

Booo

@nikahmadfaris7542 Год назад

nice

@KingKobra49 Год назад

Yo! I make entertaining videos as well. I know I am not the best rn but give me an opportunity,and I won’t fail to put a smile on your face! I appreciate you thanks❣️

@ACR909 Год назад

this has been up for 4 days? cheeky.

@SemiHypercube Год назад

Heh

@FrozenYoghurt2411 Год назад

I'm stupid, I started reading the subtitles for when the polish started and only 30 seconds later realised that I in fact do speak and understand polish fluently

@Ruthavecflute Год назад

Not stupid. Just not used to having Polish unexpectedly thrown at you when you were expecting English.

@nikobellic570 Год назад

Habit

@CL-go2ji Год назад

God, the human mind is strange! (Not "your mind" - the same thing could totally happen to me with German.)

@irbissniezny7570 Год назад

I did exactly the same xD

@elemzs Год назад

Ja też z opóźnieniem skumałem... Po 10 sekundach po czym też się chwilę nad sobą zastanowiłem ;DDD

@PinkoLP Год назад

"So I worked in water quality assurance once..." All the other clams: "Oh, shut up Jerry!"

@Finat0 Год назад

Jerry the clam

@Electrk Год назад

That would get him to clam up

@amadeosendiulo2137 Год назад

*Jeremiasz

@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 Год назад

dirty water

@bluemonstrosity259 Год назад

Jaroslaw

@violagreene4643 Год назад

The Polish scientist describing the clams as "colleagues" was such a sweet turn of phrase.

@rhamlet5290 Год назад

I'd say that term is almost more like "friends" in English

@Haxior5506 Год назад

@@rhamlet5290 No it's not :)

@rhamlet5290 Год назад

@@Haxior5506 In Polish, "Koledze" is almost always "Friends" in English

@mineq4967 Год назад

@@rhamlet5290 ale ona powiedziała "współpracowników"

@piotrbazucki4080 Год назад

but the most acurate translation would be "coworkers"

@benjicool2808 Год назад

"we take care of our colleagues" when talking about the clams safety is gold

@muchanadziko6378 6 месяцев назад

we're all in this together

@TurtleKwitty Год назад

"Because we take care of our coworkers" is the best line ever and shes so proud of that fact so wholesome

@xianicarus8770 Год назад

I was really glad to hear that the welfare of the clams was important to them. Using animals to help the human race is smart, but too often we do so at the cost of their safety and happiness.

@doxielain2231 Год назад

Everyone is people, after all, human or clam, insect or bird. We're all just different folks.

@AnimeSunglasses Год назад

Agreed!

@aceg81 Год назад

@@xianicarus8770 "I was really glad to hear that the welfare of the clams was important to them." You might say you're happy as a clam :)

@lewisirwin5363 Год назад

@Justin Lukas Very unshellfish of them!

@HalfShelli Год назад

The most delightful (and surprising, tbh) part of this for me is that they don't hurt the clams, and that they return them to their lake homes after three months for working so diligently in a stressful job. 🥰

@vinsanity488 Год назад

It is very nice to see the water managers take good care of the mussels that are taking good care of us

@strzalek Год назад

The clams are from the river itself, so they catch them like around water tower and move them just like a few dozen meters from their natural habitat. And after 3 months they come back to the river.

@mareksicinski449 Год назад

i don't know how much the clams notice the change in environment, i guess it helps and prevents some distortion i guess

@davidmartensson273 Год назад

3 month of consultant work :D And I bet the lake they come from gets all the protection it can get in return

@watmfw Год назад

@@strzalek In the subtitles its says the clams are caught in a "very clean lake". Is it mistranslated?

@Hotlooksamerica Год назад

People used to keep a canary in the coalmine, Warsaw water department keeps clams in the turbine.

@johnchessant3012 Год назад

imagine being one of those clams returned to the water after three months ... it'd be like they got back from an alien encounter, absolutely wild

@Inquiringmind0 Год назад

Yes, they even have their own conventions where they talk about their experiences.

@kubagornowicz Год назад

But most normal clams don't believe them.

@TheBlacktom Год назад

And what did they do to you? Well, I was a sensor.

@TheMitchellExpress Год назад

Lmao. Now I want to write a short story where a guy is abducted to become an air monitor for an alien race.

@p1rgit Год назад

@@kubagornowicz i caught 5 brown trouts from puddle where they were trapped when creek dried (normally puddle is big enough for fish to survive summer, at least knee deep and metres wide and with autumn rains river returns but this summer was extra dry) and released into river proper. maybe they formed cult and are talking about alien kidnappers... fishnappers. and nobody believes them. - this is actually underground river here. Jõelähtme, Estonia. summertime only underground, except this puddle, autumn to spring both, under and above.

@miriam4235 Год назад

Her calling the clams 'colleagues' is just the best! 😊

@SunroseStudios Год назад

was coming down here to say that!

@A3Kr0n Год назад

I like fried colleagues.

@justusP9101 Год назад

@@A3Kr0n Fried clams!? I only liked them boiled or steamed.

@WanderTheNomad Год назад

@@A3Kr0n The clams are good too

@mistformsquirrel Год назад

They're the mussel behind the project >_>

@ThatOneBlackGuy 4 месяца назад

The analogy of it being another layer in their security, like a bomb sniffing dog in an airport, was wonderfuly said.

@angelinasurzhyk6655 Год назад

As a Ukrainian speaker, watching the Polish interview was a delightful mix of “oh, I can understand that!” and “huh-” It does not help that Polish for “contaminated water” is literally Ukrainian for “crazy/rabid water”😂

@missquprison Год назад

"skażona woda"?

@mabciapayne16 Год назад

@@missquprison może скажений

@Kriae Год назад

I can relate, this happens to me with some Russian words that sound Polish

@felixfelix9219 Год назад

lmao ikr

@ZanHellish Год назад

@@Kriae there is no such things

@Apacheman37 Год назад

Your entire opening monologue explains why people like you need to exist, real info coming from someone who is interested and committed to finding out how

@fang_xianfu Год назад

I also appreciate that Tom makes the "I researched this thing and actually it turns out it's not true" video and the "well I did all the research I could and the jury's still out" video sometimes as well

@morosis82 Год назад

Don't forget trusted. The trick is having people that you trust will tell the truth, warts and all, even when the ultimate answer is "we don't know".

@Lucien86 Год назад

@@morosis82 So many times when scientific theories or ideas are put out that are wrong its down to people not wanting to admit that 'we don't know.' Not having an answer yet should always be a valid scientific position.

@morosis82 Год назад

@@Lucien86 it's also because mainstream media is hopeless at science reporting and present every study with an interesting result as The Truth.

@hannahk1306 Год назад

@@morosis82 Yes, if the scientists conclude "X may increase the cancer risk in this very specific group of people by 1%", then the headlines will say "X causes cancer".

@andrzejbroniarek9256 Год назад

I live in Warsaw, and I think I was told about those clams in school, and it never occured to me, that this is something weird. So I interpret this video other way around: I just found out, that this thing that I just knew and accepted as a fact might be weird to someone :)

@JakubKas Год назад

Polish engineering at its best. Although I don't think it will help if Odra 2.0 happens

@TrveIrrlicht Год назад

@@JakubKas Why shouldn't it?

@assassingamer1879 Год назад

siema

@wiktoriarynkun3673 Год назад

Same here! During the intro I thought "Wait, so that's not like a standard thing used worldwide???"

@MBkufel Год назад

@@JakubKas I would help with keeping the contaminants from entering the water system.

@Brian-bp5pe Год назад

Fresh water clams are amazing creatures, unappreciated for their contributions to their local environment. Once abundant in the many rivers and streams of North America, today they are not as easily found. As prodigious filter feeders, they effectively kept the water clear and can be used to do the same in aquariums. The trouble is, mollusks are unusually sensitive to chemical pollution, often dying after exposure to concentrations that won't harm fish.

@dustinbasurto7371 Год назад

I live on the Oregon coast and near a river with a declining population of fresh water mussels, eel, and craw-fish in my lifetime. They are still here luckily. The ocean tide pools are not as fortunate . In my opinion it was declining as well and then the Fukushima accident wiped out 90% of the tide pool life.

@tribblefluffer Год назад

I love that you are willing to go through all the effort and research and hard work to prove to us that Poland is indeed testing their water with clams! Such an interesting story, i'd never heard of it before but it does make sense. Thank you for taking the time and effort to create this and know that you and your work is loved and appreciated!

@pyglik2296 Год назад

It's so weird to be watching Tom Scott's video and have to switch from English to your native language! Nice to see you in Poland!

@meks3920 Год назад

Same feeling but I'll be damned if onion in my heart doesn't start to grow.

@graullas8981 Год назад

rel

@ICountFrom0 Год назад

The air quotes gesture was on "coworker" right?

@MitoTomakawa Год назад

@@ICountFrom0 Yes

@234yh4 Год назад

i know polish but started reading subtitles, my brain was so confused!

@dahgnzg5508 Год назад

Finally a topic I already know something about, in Poland schools they taught us that clams require a very specific enviroment which allows clams to be a tester for water as they are very vurnerable to enviroment changes, unluckily they can only live in healthy bodies of water which gives us the ability to determine in what state the water is.

@holdmacat9932 Год назад

My poland school have never taught me that..

@dahgnzg5508 Год назад

@@holdmacat9932 for my class it was bonus work for interested people

@TonyWhitley Год назад

Burn! 😁

@bluethunder212 Год назад

bro how did you write this in 9min 💀

@junkim2789 Год назад

This was really cool! Love to Poland from 🇰🇷!

@jobal3278 Год назад

In Poland, the small municipality of Zmigrod also tests water purity this way

@KobiSheero Год назад

I've actually completed studies in Łódź, Poland with Biomonitoring specialization, our country slowly but surely implements those kinds of enviroment monitoring in various places

@Ntmoffi Год назад

As someone who works for a water district I find this absolutely fascinating.

@CookingWithCows Год назад

Is that like a water nation, but way smaller?

@Ntmoffi Год назад

@@CookingWithCows 💯✅

@GamesFromSpace Год назад

Maybe be careful how you bring this up to your coworkers. You could get fired for being a wacko, or lose your job to some clams if they believe you.

@khalilahd. Год назад

It’s so cool

@ScottieContact Год назад

Same here

@DawidSikora Год назад

As a Pole I heard this story so long ago it never occurred to me it even could be false. More: I assumed this is a standard procedure worldwide

@mareksicinski449 Год назад

well it is based on the style of article and scpeticism due to looking for interesting claims a lot

@michalwojtylo8929 Год назад

Kiedyś widziałem to w tv, nie pamiętam jak dawno temu. Ale logicznie myśląc uznałem to za tani i świetny sposób na badanie wody i nie byłem tym zdziwiony.

@bubblewrapstargirl Год назад

It's should be standard imo. This is adorable! You can have all the fancy gadgets you want but Nature always knows best 💖😊

@bigporkcity420 Год назад

We do stuff like this is NA, just with fish (LD50 test), and it's not continuously monitored onsite, but is rather a test done at a lab using samples that are sent in once a month (for wastewater, not sure if this is required for drinking water). Drinking water will be regularly measured for coliforms and chlorine residual, which should ensure the water stays disinfected.

@marcofloresmfcs1 Год назад

In American the water is crap

@youseck Год назад

Love from Poland. I'm old fan excited to see you in Poland!!

@krysstefan2505 6 месяцев назад

Was in Poland few years ago my coffee was testing so good ….bring same coffee too London GB was disappointed coffee tastes totally different now I’m shocked and amazed the secret off Poland is doing amazing job polish granny from Canada

@TheStefanoMA Год назад

This is possibly the most Tom Scott video title of all Tom Scott video titles.

@handlesrtwitterdontbelivethem Год назад

@@A.F.1 shut up

@khalilahd. Год назад

Lmfaoo you might be right 😅

@MrLipp24 Год назад

@@A.F.1 stop spamming

@TheStefanoMA Год назад

@@khalilahd. Random country? Check. Random industry? Check. Random problem solution? Check.

@emilyjanet455 Год назад

The line "we take care of our colleagues here" was so genuinely sweet? I love that. I love these clams.

@vinsanity488 Год назад

And not only can they help protect us from potentially contaminated drinking water, but they also are very important natural filters for freshwaters worldwide, helping to clean our rivers and streams. Unfortunately freshwater mussels are one of the most endangered group of organisms in the world and they need our help to prevent extinction of species of mussels. The more we help protect them, the more they can help protect/clean the waters we rely on!

@mareksicinski449 Год назад

i don't like the term 'sweet' her, just interesting, in a postive sense

@lyagushkha8490 Год назад

Im polish and I didn't even know it was a thing. More Poland videos please! (if there are any interesting topics, that is)

@Gringottone Год назад

Great video, really appreciate how wholesome you made the whole thing. Keep it up!

@PetrHosek Год назад

Wow, listening to Polish (which I as a Czech can sort of understand) while reading English subtitles nearly broke my brain :)

@thebiggestcauldron Год назад

Cześć, Czechu! Fajne macie znaki diakrytyczne.

@PanLukash Год назад

Szukaj drogi, a ją znajdziesz! ;)

@hypnoskales7069 Год назад

Čeśť, Čechu! Fajne matě znaki diakrytyčne.

@Morrov Год назад

@@thebiggestcauldron tak zwane háčky, haczki

@lolipka Год назад

Podobnie, chociaż ja z Polski

@TheVagolfer Год назад

Tom, you willingness to be humble and occasionally admit you're wrong , makes you a rare and likeable entertainer. Thank you.

@khalilahd. Год назад

Agreed ❤

@tolep Год назад

That's why he does it.

@caliphax70 Год назад

In fairness, if someone told that to me I think I wouldn't believe it either.

@oldvlognewtricks Год назад

Clams also tested his sensitivity to misinformation

@josmith4531 Год назад

On a side note, In my experience it's generally the smartest and most knowledgeable people that are the fastest and most willing to admit when they are wrong.

@_oleslaw_4235 Год назад

great feeling when i'm polish and i don't have to read subtitles.

@bharkbh Год назад

fr haha

@Deflas Год назад

I have never heard about this so far despite of beeing from Poland. Its insanely good idea! Thanks for an excelent and educative video Tom ;)

@smartereveryday Год назад

This is awesome

@QingChina1 Год назад

Indeed it is

@suchyzgr Год назад

Even smallest towns like Legionowo are using that. And i think like you - it's freaking cool!

@kartoffelbrei8090 Год назад

No u. or more like you included

@JesusFriedChrist Год назад

I bet you were losing your mind with all the *turbulent flow* happening in the river eh?

@moos5221 Год назад

You are awesome!

@EASSIMVAMOS Год назад

I've been living in Warsaw for 4 years and always wondered what happens inside this building! Thanks, Tom XD

@az1z91 Год назад

Me too! But the more important question now is - how does this lady get to this building?

@grzesieks345 Год назад

@@az1z91 there is a tunnel

@davidiverson5928 Год назад

Tom SPECIFICALLY said that there were things that he was not allowed to film. 504 Battery Place in NYC is a building that provides ventilation to the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel, but it's also the entrance to the MIB headquarters.

@Pressplay_Media_EU Год назад

Li'l Yachty says wazzap 🥤He took the waaaaalllllllllllllk (To Poland)

@largol33t1 Год назад

I'm glad the city didn't keep its mouth clammed shut. 😁

@nibelungvalesti 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for keeping it succinct, Tommy!

@tomekl119 Год назад

Imagine aliens abducting people just to use them as a smelly fart detector for a few months

@ninjoshday Год назад

I never realized water treatment was so clamplicated. Thanks for the great work

@cf453 Год назад

You really musseled your way through that joke.

@ninjoshday Год назад

@@cf453 Maybe I was a little shellfish there

@KoRbA2310 Год назад

get out xD

@belverdemotorsports2410 Год назад

Ahaaaaaa

@WouterWeggelaar Год назад

@@KoRbA2310 thats my trout!

@surfing_yoda Год назад

in switzerland we used to use trouts but now we use daphnia because they use less space and are easier to reproduce in a lab setting. i used to work in QA for a water treatment facility and it is super facinating

@tangiers365 Год назад

Are you rich

@chilanya Год назад

yes i was told about the trouts as a child, that they were used for this purpose in the Netherlands (where i grew up) and many different places as well. i thought it was normal. i probably misremembered it being the NL, though.

@cheddars2426 Год назад

@@chilanya No you remembered right. In the Biesbosch in the Netherlands they used to use a certain fish species, not sure whether it was trout. Nowadays they also use daphnia because the reason mentioned. And they are much more sensitive to pollutants than fish.

@moos5221 Год назад

In Germany we used dolphins to check the water quality, but now they've all been eaten by free roaming water elephants.

@veramae4098 Год назад

Daphnia. Googled it. WATER FLEAS.

@abcdef8915 Год назад

I like how he gets to the point and the research is thorough.

@Schattendragonfly Год назад

Yep :) Thank you for the visit and showing some of the amazing things that take place here :) Cheers

@wingshad0w00982 Год назад

I can completely understand both why you were very suspicious, and why this would be a good indicator. Clams are sensitive creatures in terms of pollutants, and if they find something is wrong, something is probably wrong. While I’d prefer to have a few other backups if I ran something like this using a systems that’s not too expensive to maintain, and provides a fairly straightforward answer is always nice to have on hand. I’d put a ‘happy as a clam’ pun in there, but that’d be shellfish of me.

@leadpaintchips9461 Год назад

Last line absolutely worth clicking 'Read more'.

@Hallonbot Год назад

You were really flexing your pun mussels there!

@Salt_Master_Queue Год назад

I'm not one to clam up when it comes to a good pun.

@jbrou123 Год назад

They do something similar to test rivers and lakes her in Louisiana. Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries will collect several fish, then send them to LSU med labs to check levels of mercury and lead and other chemicals. High levels may indicate that a refinery or chem plant upstream is releasing toxic chems into the water.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Год назад

Well, the clams probably aren't too happy to be used as poison sensors.

@kontanaizumi Год назад

I never thought it was a weird claim i always thought it was along the same line as using birds to check for deadly gases

@blackiceocto9229 Год назад

You are probably thinking of canaries, a type of song bird. They were used just as you described by miners.

@TheBirchCreek Год назад

Some water treatment plants, AFAIK, also use fish that require very clean water, like trouts, for example.

@dorol6375 Год назад

That exists???

@Person01234 Год назад

@@dorol6375 The phrase "the canary in the coal mine" (to mean someone or something forewarning of a disaster) is derived from the very real (outdated) practice of miners taking canaries (or other small birds) down into the coal mines with them and if there were dangerous gas buildups (like carbon monoxide) the birds (being smaller and less resiliant than the miners) would die and the miners would gtfo. There was actually some special cages that they could use to keep the bird alive if it fell unconscious from the gas too.

@vez3834 Год назад

@@Person01234 Yo! I never realized that saying was from a real-world example. That's cool, although sad that those birds had to die.

@AgentGilded Год назад

The color filter used on this video looks amazing!

@ordinarymaker5851 Год назад

Clams and other shellfish in lakes and rivers are actualy good indicator of water purenes because they are very sensitive to "bad" water. I used to have aquarium where fish lived for months and when I add few shrimps to it they literally wanted to jump out of the tank. I did some tests and it turns out it has higher level of NO3 in it! They feeled that in a seconds :D

@esverker7018 Год назад

I live in Minnesota with the other bio-monitering system! The city of Minneapolis is the only city in the USA that monitors the water with mussels (not clams), it's been going for like 15 years. We get our water from the Mississippi and contamination is always a concern. I remember learning about it in school. I had no idea it was a unique concept before watching the video

@MegaTpeck Год назад

From Rochester, this is news to me. That's absolutely fascinating! Sometimes the world feels unusually small 😆

@strehlow Год назад

Ah, I live in Minneapolis too and was wondering. I asked the question, then scrolled down a bit and found this. Cool, thanks!

@AmyC37217 Год назад

Rose Lindström Nylund and the city of St. Olaf Minnesota must be so proud . . . . . . . . . . . . . (and yes - this is a joke for those who can not grasp the allusion)

@strehlow Год назад

@@AmyC37217 That allusion is golden!

@NothernSide Год назад

If the mussels in Minnesota die in two days, the water is considered passable. (I joke.)

@ravenwarjoy Год назад

Tom Scott finally came around to Poland, how nice. Hope you didn't just come here for some clams, looking forward to more videos on cool stuff from the region.

@ravenwarjoy Год назад

@@ragnkja I know, that's why I'm hoping.

@matnovak Год назад

For this video, Tom hired a guy who's a specialist at finding locations for professional movie and video production. I really hope that they have some more stuff that could be explored

@diablo1271 Год назад

Short, brief video. Great job @TomScottGo

@NoelHein Год назад

this awesome video and you didn't force it into a 10-11 minute video. hats off to you, sir. thank you for this, was very interesting.

@averagemoth Год назад

I used to live in Warsaw. I had no clue that clams tested the water that I drank, thank you clams for your service.

@TheBlacktom Год назад

Did you drink tap water? Is it safe now? I remember it wasn't safe 10-20 years ago. You had to boil the water to use it, or buy bottled water or water from special wells.

@jakubniemczuk Год назад

@@TheBlacktom It's safe.

@bartekmarze1863 Год назад

@@TheBlacktom it is now completely safe to dring water from taps in major cities

@krzysztofmikoajczyk1415 Год назад

@@TheBlacktom it is safe and it was safe 10-20 years ago for sure.

@clray123 Год назад

@@TheBlacktom The boiling was necessary more like 40 years ago.

@qubusieq8694 Год назад

Dziękujemy Tomku Szkocie za ten edukacyjny materiał

@1pawelgo Год назад

Tomku Szkocie, haha.

@JOLLY-10 Год назад

@@1pawelgo czy masz napad, ponieważ polski szczerze nie ma sensu i jest bardzo skomplikowany do mówienia?

@katekyy7 Год назад

@@JOLLY-10 tzn?

@pablx9944 Год назад

@@JOLLY-10 what u mean

@edziofilipek Год назад

@jessicafrost7579 Год назад

The really whimsical bit for me isn't that they use clams, it's that someone's job description includes clam calibration.

@DavidJamesHenry 10 месяцев назад

Never before have I looked at a clam and said "good boy" but I guess today's the day

@heavyarmor2446 Год назад

What I really like, and is a returning feature of these videos, is that the speakers are allowed to speak in their native languages. In my perspective it enhances the cultural importance of a lot of topics. Furthermore, has it something to do with the speaker ability to explain it as natural as possible? It feels like it anyway. Thanks again for the video

@ApprenticePL Год назад

I'm more inclined to think they just didn't find anyone qualified + fluent + camera-ready enough among the water plant staff 😅

@1203fild Год назад

Another good thing was i as a Czech could listen to the Polish language and try to make out the meaning of the spoken words :D

@marsjaninzmarsa Год назад

@@ApprenticePL you will always be more fluent in native language

@olekj8665 Год назад

@@ApprenticePL It wasn’t just in this video, in many others in the past the speakers were talking in their native language

@WhammeWhamme Год назад

@@olekj8665 - sure, but Tom has also made videos (especially in France and Germany) where people spoke in accented English. So I think he just leaves it up to the interviewees to answer however they feel most comfortable, which is of course the best way to do it. :)

@cleverusername9369 Год назад

I realized I've never heard Polish spoken aloud before, what a lovely language! Written out it looks like someone trying to write a series of sneezes but spoken, it's very beguiling.

@Hollyweed1 Год назад

Series of sneezes 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@rcollyer77 Год назад

Polish is a lot like English in that it too has Latin roots. I found this out when I saw the Polish word for library: biblioteka.

@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies Год назад

@@rcollyer77 It seems like a bizarre one to me. Not often you hear a language with such strong slavic roots that also has strong latin roots!

@redgamer821 Год назад

@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies Almost like Poland is situated in between Latin and Slavic dominated regions

@rcollyer77 Год назад

@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies it was a complete surprise to me, too. I know only a couple of words from friends, so the language was almost a complete mystery. It was an interesting surprise.

@Jake-bt7ig Год назад

Minnesota is my home! So cool to be part of a Tom Scott video.

@neilsiebenthal8696 Год назад

Always learn something new when you put out a video.

@ringosis Год назад

"We take care of our colleagues" in reference to clams might be the most adorable thing anyone has ever said.

@mareksicinski449 Год назад

i wouldn't say adorable, it is abit of a different vibe, jsut interesting diffent hinking possitve

@Xenoxvvv Год назад

@@mareksicinski449 wholesome

@oleopathic Год назад

Civil engineer, here. I work with water projects and am fascinated by this cross-section of synthetic/designed infrastructure and biological infrastructure. Never heard of clam use in PL before but now glad that I did. Thank you for your investigation ! "Bio-monitoring" I'll keep this concept on my radar.

@ballyhigh11 Год назад

Bio-monitoring has been famously used by miners for centuries.

@oleopathic Год назад

@@ballyhigh11 the canary in a coal mine? tell us more.

@greenanubis Год назад

One could say that a dog in the backyard is bio-monitoring.

@SaheeliRai Год назад

You don't have to use clams. In germany daphnia are used

@Sir_Bucket Год назад

In France, we used to have trouts to check water purity in some instalations. Idk if they still are in service tho'

@ausdingchu24 Год назад

Shor, informative and straightforward. Good video!

@sagacious03 Год назад

Neat analysis video! Thanks for uploading!

@vinterbjork4128 Год назад

While being critical infrastructure I really like that they allow some small amount of controlled filming, it really brings the story to life!

@clray123 Год назад

The question is why there would be any issue with filming inside an object like this at all. After all, the enemy already knows where to drop the bomb to get rid of this piece "critical infrastructure". And they will do it if they intend do (see Ukraine)...

@paweldembowski Год назад

@@clray123 could be sabotaged instead of bombed

@edwardhuggins84 Год назад

@@clray123 while that is true for a conventional war/enemy however it is protection from sabotage or terrorism

@Milten130 Год назад

@@clray123 you could see what kind of access control system they are using for doors, where is security, cameras, valves, computers etc. To get in and out unnoticed

@Failzz8 Год назад

@@clray123 Giving the public a blueprint for the one piece of infrastructure with which a single bad actor could instantly poison a city of millions is kind of a bad idea.

@arbitraryconfusion Год назад

I am so happy to learn about calibrating a clam.

@GrzegorzSobkowicz Год назад

Now what about overclocking lobsters?

@theleva7 Год назад

@@GrzegorzSobkowicz Thankfully lobsters are already liquid-cooled, no problem there.

@BWGPT Год назад

Can tuna fish. But should we?

@Mandanara Год назад

@@GrzegorzSobkowicz Undervolting my electric eels made them run much more efficiently, I go through way less used car batteries to recharge them than I used to.

@JuanJNieto Год назад

Here in Colombia they do the same thing in each water plant, just that they use fishes swiming in there

@MattyW5321 7 дней назад

Clam returning from 3 months tour of duty to the lake: Ooof finally home Clam VA: Your shell pain is not service related e.e

@SmallGuyonTop Год назад

I lived in Poland 7 years. They are quite ingenious and they purposefully seek creative and out of the ordinary solutions to their way of living.

@retroelectrical Год назад

They just have to avoid their natural enemy, the light bulb. :)

@m1515 Год назад

@@retroelectrical 100% sure you've never been to Poland

@GabeNotNewell Год назад

Well, Just check how many stuff Polish people invented For example Kerosene Lamp

@Shadow38PL Год назад

@@retroelectrical The "Osram" light bulb?

@nikodembiniek7103 Год назад

@@m1515 Oj tak ziomeczku

@Gorrgrim Год назад

There's tubers who never leave their house just copying and pasting stories they hear from the internet, then you got Tom Scott who actually goes out there and creates stories for the internet

@Aemirys Год назад

I absolutely love videos like these!

@rjc0234 Год назад

"There have been plenty of hoaxes spread about and taken too serious in the past" yes Tom, yes there have been Tom :D

@blakksheep736 Год назад

@benjaminmatheny6683 Год назад

I think one of the best parts of your videos is the interviews with the unsung heroes that keep our world running. people are ignorant of what all goes into make the modern world work.

@maxicx75v Год назад

You mean the clams?

@royalninja2823 Год назад

I remember years ago a photo going around of one of those clams with the spring and magnet glued on top. It makes me so happy that that is exactly how the sensors actually work

@zembalu Год назад

In Vienna/Austria the drinking water comes from the alps through 180 km pipelines and aqueducts, no pumps needed. I heard, that among chemical, physical and microbial quality assessment, fish are used, similar to the clams.

@szakurobifilmy7866 Год назад

Wasn't expecting to ever see my house in one of your videos, but it's super cool

@ChristianBehnke Год назад

This is incredible, and I love that they call them "colleagues"! 😂

@lmesen1873 Год назад

We used to have a different word for workers that don't consent to being there... hmm.

@kubaGR8 Год назад

@@lmesen1873 A slave is a person (physically, since I assume actual slave owners might think otherwise), a clam is not a person.

@soundscape26 Год назад

@@lmesen1873 You wanted to ask the clams?

@pequodexpress Год назад

The translation should have been "our workers."

@piotrpodolski1589 Год назад

@@pequodexpress co-workers

@davemoore7442 Год назад

In north east England the water authority used a trout in a tank with the mains water flowing through. The fish's vital signs were monitored electronically. Came across this in 1999 while doing millennium compliance testing.

@Nuskrad Год назад

don't tell half a tale, was the trout Y2K compliant?

@Skilly42 Год назад

Fish monitors were used in North West England as well in the 80s and 90s. Stopped being used I think due to too many false alarms and a lot of maintenance/attention required.

@SB-jt2vx Год назад

I was involved in using a particular breed of Chinese carp for this. Very sensitive to water quality, a little too sensitive in the end!

@Lucina.. Год назад

@@Nuskrad 🤦🏼‍♀️ everyone knows that was just invented to scare people. In reality, the onboard clock on the trouts was perfectly fine to continue for at least another thousand years. I bet you fell for the hype hook, line and sinker. I’ll see myself out.

@ammo2222 Год назад

Fish Monitors were also used in a Chemical Plant in Austria to Test the used Cooling Water.

@WrzesinskiMarcin Год назад

Thank You Tom for visiting my country.

@SherlockPL Год назад

Oh hey thanks for coming to our country! I live here in Poland and I honestly have never heard of this 😯 cool as heck. If you wanna visit us again, we would be thrilled! ❤️

@atlas132 Год назад

In Poland that object we use to call it "Gruba Kaśka " Thank you Tom for visiting our country!🥲

@irippiri2847 Год назад

It's a shame, good video title but had the wrong person reporting it. Tom Scott is too boring

@michals9929 Год назад

@闘将ダイモス It is a Warsaw thing. Only this specific object is called Gruba Kaśka.

@Glownyszef Год назад

Just Default City things

@gkasprow Год назад

@闘将ダイモス it's in Warsaw, and we call this particular building that way.

@marvindebot3264 Год назад

@@irippiri2847 Several million people beg to differ. Why are you even here?

@rybalan Год назад

Meanwhile me who got used to watching with English subtitles, so even when they are speaking in my native language, I'm still watching with the English subtitles completely ignoring the audio

@garfield10011 12 дней назад

These comments are like a breath of fresh air. Thank you for the kind words.

@adam108 5 месяцев назад

really nice drone footage of the city at the end off video :)

@Rosa-xg8tb Год назад

Been waiting for an episode from Poland for years and it finally came true! Great video

@tomrogue13 Год назад

I can watch a Tom Scott video and practice my Polish at the same time!

@amadeosendiulo2137 Год назад

@@tomrogue13 Well, we have some advanced vocabulary here

@SirMarq Год назад

Damn, i see this building almost everyday for over 20 years, i have always wondered what is inside, but never enough to do research on my own. Thanks Tom, it really suprised me you visited my hometown, i wish i knew earlier so i would find you hehe

@oxybrightdark8765 Год назад

I have had the exact same experience! For me , it was a Coca Cola bottling plant.

@bazem Год назад

At 2:55 I was surprised to hear her clearly saying SONDA, which is also exactly the way we say "probe" in Portuguese.

@MadDogGiraffe Год назад

Thanks Tom, fascinating.

@Draconicrose Год назад

What surprised me most about this is that the clams are caught wild and returned to nature after a while. I would have guessed that they'd be bred for this and "used" until they died.

@matasa7463 Год назад

Probably to prevent the clams from being changed or adapted to dirty water. They are caught in a known clean lake and changed frequently to keep the samples stable.

@Bettinasisrg Год назад

Only in America, but we'd never do this because there's not enough profit in it. Imagine if this was implemented in Flint Michigan

@redwitch12 Год назад

@@Bettinasisrg Do you want rampaging mutant death clams? Because that's how you get rampaging mutant death clams.

@_de_reve Год назад

"using them until they die" is such a capitalist idea. the eu has strict animal safety regulations, thank goodness

@maleficent3333 6 месяцев назад

breeding freshwater clams requires fish as they are parasites and live on fish before they turn into actuall clam, and takes years, so not fizzible.

@Szymmon614 Год назад

Poznań also have clams monitoring system. I was in there several years ago, and I didn't realize that other cities have it too. And it was nice to hear my language in your video.

@zelekk86 Год назад

Company setting up this monitoring systems is set in Poznań, and its providing SYMBIO devices all over the country. Whats funny Poznań's Aquanet is not using said divice, they have their own bit different solution.

@katekyy7 Год назад

@@zelekk86 I suppose it's probably 'cause Poznań's Aquanet was using this before SYMBIO has been created?

@LotsOfChocobos Год назад

Actually, in berlin, germany, the tap water is protected by some kind of water living animal too

@gacek5036 Год назад

Nice to see you in my home town!

@StudentInFrance Год назад

More videos from Poland please! :) There's so much to explore!!!

@Mike-or2cv Год назад

You can always visit us! :) Hugs from Poland.

@aleks6809 Год назад

There is a lot. Theres „wieliczka salt mine” near krakow and that has a good history defenitelly something tom would would go look at

@Ratiosaurus Год назад

I think Crooked Forest is a perfect place for Tom's video, because it's where weird and unique meats the interesting history of technology (possibly, according to the main theory at least).

@r00tw00t Год назад

Poland is great. I have had such good times visiting

@nowymail Год назад

@@Ratiosaurus Meats? Yum! Beef, please!

@jakistam1000 Год назад

Love to see a video from my country! Also, it was a really weird feeling to read the English subtitles and listen to Polish speech (I have some experience with the reverse, from movies, but not this way). But I can assure everyone that the translation was very good!

@jakubgadzala7474 Год назад

Łał! Dziękuję za ten materiał. Piękny raport. Jako Polak od dekady mieszkający za granicą, nigdy o tym nie słyszałem. Pozdrawiam serdecznie!

@Giaour Год назад

Wiele lat temu, jak ten system był wprowadzany robiłem dla dostawcy animowaną prezentację we Flash i interesowałem się tematem. Małże są najlepsze, ale już starożytni rzymianie używali pstrągów w akweduktach, też są bardzo wrażliwe na zanieczyszczenia, ale nie tak jak małże i trudniej im założyć czujniki

@hjalfi Год назад

I live in Zurich, and got a tour of the water refinery here; they use shrimps for the same purpose. I can recommend the tour as they're also a bunch of insane overachievers who use, essentially, _all_ the ways to purify water, simultaneously. They say that it's unfair to compare Zurich tapwater with bottled mineral water, as the tapwater is substantially better.

@kiko.Poland Год назад

W polsce też niektóre badania wskazują że woda z kranu jest lepsza niż kupiona w sklepie. Ogólnie w Polsce większości miast można pić wodę prosto z kranu.

@hjalfi Год назад

@@kiko.Poland Zurich water isn't just drinkable from the tap, it's so clean they don't even have to chlorinate it!

@e5858 Год назад

You’re telling me a shrimp checked this water?

@hjalfi Год назад

@@e5858 Yes. They continuously run a sample of the water through a glass cell containing shrimp. Computer vision cameras monitor the shrimp's motion. They said that they can identify specific contaminants by the way the shrimp's swimming patterns change. All the shrimp are produced parthenogenically to ensure they're genetically identical, and they get swapped out before the become fully mature to prevent sexual reproduction.

@wojtekpolska1013 Год назад

@@hjalfi yea, its the same in Poland. very proud of that, i can just drink as much water straight out of the tap without worrying about boiling or anything. feel bad for the people who have to go out to a store just to get some drinking water

@leowaltenspuel Год назад

In Zurich (Switzerland), they actually do something similar. A small portion of drinking water passes water fleas/daphnia for quality control. The movement of these fleas is tracked by software. Since these are very active and sensitive, even small impurities are noticeable in the movement pattern. Biomonitoring is everywhere :D

@tookitogo Год назад

Actually, they use water fleas to test the well water, but trout to test the lake water! :P

@sektionneun3199 Год назад

I know Austria is also using fleas

@glubone Год назад

we are dependent on other living creatures

@Chaun1998 Год назад

You are rapidly approaching XKCD levels of always having a relavent comic/video

@NiVoMediaSolutions Год назад

really like the moving during the video to help with attention. nice idea.

@natsunoneko Год назад

As a longtime fan I'm beyond excited that you not only came to my country but taught me something about it! I also appreciated the reminder at the beginning of the video to be skeptical about such extraordinary clams (I stole your joke)! And props to the translator, they did a great job. Love from Poland!

@MidnightTheKitten Год назад

Bruh I see you have a RU-vid video from 10 years ago- what a time capsule Love from America 😁

@suchymk Год назад

Ta to niezła Polska osoba z chińskim nickiem😐

@natsunoneko Год назад

@@suchymk rany, nawet już nie można lubić chińskich bajek 🙄

@Exchromer Год назад

@@natsunoneko potwierdzam, moja koleżanka jest na japonistyce i jak nauczyła się kany to stała się japonką

@AkenoXD Год назад

@@suchymk Czemu nie? Wiesz, że ludzie mogą znać więcej niż 2 języki xD

@malusignatius Год назад

Medeka (a small toothcarp also known as a Ricefish) are used in Japan for biomonitoring water supplies as well.

@mareksicinski449 Год назад

is it the same way or just studying their presence in habitats?

@2eanimation Год назад

Germany uses minnows(Elritze/phoxinus phoxinus) :)

@maddummel Год назад

not just Warsaw! I went on a school trip maybe 15 years ago to the Ponzań sewage treatment plant and they also use that :) we were told it's a common thing, I assumed they do it all around the world haha

@ex_deus4250 Год назад

I have once visited Wroclaw water plant and as i remember the tour around facility it was the same warning system. Those clams react faster that any electronics.