The FULL Story of Where NYC's Water Comes From

[@claydepositar1456]

My favorite kind of public opinion video

[@powderblueworld]

feel like the visuals complement the storytelling seamlessly in this one, loved the maps in particular. great job y'all! -nate

[@publicopinionnyc]

thanks!

[@Maxwell1989]

​@@publicopinionnyc please do the water quality of Myrtle Beach and Conway South Carolina

[@steve-from-toronto]

Great channel. Thank you algorithm. Toronto person here: I’ve always raved about NYC drinking water whenever I visited New York friends. The water truly is delicious, markedly different from ours here.

[@daygarlic2197]

You are missing 8 million followers on this account at least, New Yorkers should be supporting this account like crazy! The info that you put out about that wonderful city is UNMATCHED!!

[@publicopinionnyc]

thank you for watching!

[@highlifeexotics9825]

It really is amazing how all of these systems work without any of us ever knowing. Heroes

[@HenryKornaros]

That part

[@hhhhj5831]

This entire channel is underrated

[@publicopinionnyc]

🫡

[@micahdotpage]

Facts.

[@Alexmfabry]

production value on this one goes crazy

[@cletereinberger]

I have said it once and I’ll say it again. Every time I watch public opinion I feel like I’m early to something special.

[@TheRideStartsNow]

This video should be seen by every New Yorker - fascinating, educational, entertaining and so well produced. Great work as always from the PO team!

[@publicopinionnyc]

🤝

[@joancoyne2130]

Great tour of how NYC gets its abundance water! Thank you Public Opinion for another insightful video on the things and people that make NYC so awesome 👏

[@HenryKornaros]

Okay now, how does weed get to New York City

[@publicopinionnyc]

Lmao

[@jdorffer]

Do you want the old way or the legal way?

[@HenryKornaros]

@@jdorffer the legal way

[@noahmiller347]

It commutes from Jersey ;D

[@wacluv718]

The legal weed is grown in the state and shipped to the stores. The illegal weed comes in by people driving to another state and bringing it back.

[@cletereinberger]

The production value on this would make me think it would literally have 1 billion views

[@houstoner]

Texas well water over any other water. But cool video none the less. Awesome production!

[@thomasmann3560]

Why

[@JeremyCohen]

Jack taking a sip of water at the end of the video....what a wholesome moment

[@publicopinionnyc]

🫶

[@AlecHoss]

Kenny has my dream job!

[@nicomarroquin1998]

Dude I love this videos, they are just so wholesome for some reason, and also I just love the old pictures

[@publicopinionnyc]

Thank you! I also love the old pictures

[@CoolerQ]

Dang, now I want a 5x longer version of this video!

[@publicopinionnyc]

We're working on some follow up videos!

[@McCheesy22]

Great video as always. Maybe a weird aspect to single out, but I really want to say the color of this video was awesome. Whoever does the color grading does a bang up job. I thought this to myself especially for shots out by the reservoirs with the emerald green trees in the background.

[@Jefflurr_]

Great video. Super interesting and very well made! The people you interviewed were all great and gave good and clear info. They all looked happy to be in the video

[@JulianLamadridMusic]

water is life! 💙 amazing video once again lads, public opinion always shining a light on the heroes that make nyc possible 💥

[@lapizrr]

Visiting all those dams and watching this video , makes it feel More amazing! Thank u for the video !

[@TheAlphaZulu]

Loved this video. Very informative and super interesting! Loved the maps and editing as well! Also really enjoyed seeing the city officials in the video, nice to put a name to a face.

[@beardymanadventuresnz]

Brillent video! This sort of thing is so interesting, as a tourist a few years ago I followed parth of the path for water into LA while I was heading north, stoped at a bunch of places and enjoyed the history. On a large sale everything is so much more interesting. :)

[@newworldredglobe]

can always count on Public Opinion giving me something to think about. keep up the good work!

[@mileslane8630]

awesome video, so much work put into this. deserves more appreciation

[@apollofolf]

Absolutely incredible video and well worth the effort!! This is one of my favorite KZbin channels.

[@LovablePWNER]

You guys deserve so much more attention

[@marginalsam]

so happy someone finally made a video covering this

[@miketibbits8899]

I love these videos

[@taylernrock]

This needs to blow up, phenomenal work

[@publicopinionnyc]

Show all your friends!

[@rsKayiira]

Amazing video thank you so much. I have lived in NYC for close to a decade so this is great to know with such detail

[@DanielGladstone]

Nice job breaking down the engineering and showing off the personalities who keep it going

[@sistan80]

Love this. So similar for how we get water in Birmingham (UK) from Wales. Sharing this within my company!

[@publicopinionnyc]

Thanks for sharing!

[@miacarriles2072]

This was incredibly fascinating

[@RahLoh]

well done for seeing it through, really amazing learning about the NYC infrastructure! cant wait to see what drops next

[@publicopinionnyc]

🤝

[@BradHouser]

When I was a kid in the 60's the water in NYC was known to taste pretty bad. I am glad to hear it has improved.

[@PatsVlog]

KING OF KZbin! 👑

[@GregoryGuerrier]

Love this great documentary on NYC water!

[@starchington]

the greatest non-defense construction project in the history of Western Civilization

[@roboluigi]

Awesome video! Like the interviews you guys scheduled are really fantastic. Id love to see a behind the scenes on how you guys get those arranged. I’ll also plug that the queens museum has a nice exhibit on these waterways that feed NYC!

[@takeobeats]

underrated content keep it up!

[@publicopinionnyc]

Thank you!!

[@faisalalnuaimi121]

Amazing 👏 projects 👏 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@guthwill]

comprehensive, entertaining, and informative. amazing stuff

[@LeaveCurious]

Love the format & dedication on this. Always fascinates me how humans harness natural resources…

[@ocsrc]

We showed a documentary of the NYC Watershed. The Adirondacks feed the Scoharie Creek and the Scoharie Resiv. is feeding the Ashokan Resiv. Through the tunnel and during the winter, the flow is so low, ALL the water from the Scoharie Creek is taken by NYC. The pipes from the Ashokan resiv. start wide diam. and get smaller as they go under the Hudson river and smaller on the other side, to get up gravity. It is amazing how they designed this. But anyone who lives in the Adirondacks or Catskills will tell you., the NYC DEP water department has THOUSANDS of police that are like the Ghestopo. They patrol the entire area and they write tickets like crazy.

[@GavinWilson7]

Every video yall put out is amazing. Never stop

[@publicopinionnyc]

Thanks Gavin!

[@CatskillProduction]

Grew up in Shokan and on the Ashokan and that entire area. Go back several times a year to visit friends and family. Had a 1902 map of the aqueduct system in my house similar to what the library had but was unfortunately lost to a house fire. It wasn’t the final revision so it was interesting to look at all the changes they made over the next few years. Great video!

[@benji2023]

Now a tour of how the water leaves the city

[@publicopinionnyc]

way ahead of you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2rafHV6nbGFp6M

[@jedinxf7]

when stretch and pressure receptors in your bladder signal to your brain that you need to pee...

[@publicopinionnyc]

we already made it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2rafHV6nbGFp6M

[@ocsrc]

The tanks on top of the buildings, They use the same method, starting with a 3 inch pipe, reduced in size to 1/2 inch at the top, and they provide the pressure for old buildings that are over 6 stories. The small 1/2 inch pipe fills the tank by a float valve, just like a toilet tank uses, and the water fills to the top of the tank. so, a 10 or 12 story building has the tank that provides the 60 psi of pressure for the whole building.

[@joegg3730]

Please keep making videos like this

[@richdevita]

Incredible video, thank you!

[@slewp]

ive actually always wondered this.

[@Hailey44]

Great video team

[@DonutsFoSho]

this was a great video, love to learn how complicated things we easily take for granted are

[@justinkaviar]

Well done!

[@willtindall1748]

Great stuff lads!

[@MikeShefferNJ]

Incredible video. So interesting

[@EstorilEm]

Cool video - wish you had more time to go into greater technical detail or show some of the valves and systems, but I’m assuming there were plenty of security and time issues. I’m curious about flow control for the aqueduct and main tunnels - if ANY part of ANY of those systems fails, wouldn’t it have the potential to essentially see full head pressure from the upstream reservoirs and drain at the same rate? He mentioned they were flowing at a low rate at the top, so I guess they manage flows along the way, but there were other reservoirs downstream so that wouldn’t change pressure/risk down at the city. I’m assuming there are some huge gates and flow control systems for the main aqueduct and the three main tunnels in the city? I’ll have to research those… I’m sure it’s fascinating. Also why not use lapel mics? These days the handhelds just kinda look… awkward.

[@slowestjabroni]

awesome video

[@victorsdinner]

Great vid fellas

[@SahranHoliday]

Great video.

[@Gafferd8186]

I grew up tubing down the esopus, very cool

[@iggysixx]

Better quality than - say - Amsterdam..? ('Best quality in the USA' I do believe) . It's awesome that the system is gravity fed - very smart idea. (Like an insanely large water tower) Also; cool format. It's like an extended, in depth episode of "How It's Made".

[@jakesherman4911]

Such a cool video!!

[@lazerfuchs4426]

Yes New York City has good water but you still need a sediment carbon and gac filter for drinking water 3 stage

[@fernandotabora]

Sick Video!

[@AlexMalamet]

Amazing video!

[@TheDevilWearsGucci12]

Love smokin some blunts and fishing up at the ashokan

[@EaRLy1ONe1]

Great Jones Space, been there.

[@tomreingold4024]

You did a really good job on a fascinating topic. A few years ago, the NY Times did a multi-part series of articles on it, too. Perhaps it helped you make this. If not, find it to read it!

[@publicopinionnyc]

Thank you!

[@MarcoRCArena]

Never seen anyone THAT excited for a lake

[@ocsrc]

They have resiv. near Binghamton. They also take all the water from the Southern Tier. And, the tunnel between Scoharie to Ashokan is LEAKING. It is causing a city to sink. They have NO IDEA how to fix it. It has been leaking for 50 years.

[@aaronpod31097]

Hi Jack, remember you from Casey Neistat’s videos a couple years ago. Glad to see the work you’ve completed since then 👏👏

[@attikaifinch]

Amazing storytelling, amazing editing. How did you guys learn??

[@noticestudios]

Awesome video

[@raha1277]

Solid vid

[@fragdude]

As a fan of the original die hard movies I intrinsically know all about this.

[@ocsrc]

The old pipes, over 120 years old, are wood. I have seen them replaced when they break in NYC.

[@JohnR-wf2hh]

Super cool. Can we get a part 2 where you go fishing on a kayak in the Neversink reservoir? LFG

[@publicopinionnyc]

Part two is about how water gets to the top of the empire state building

[@sprightly106]

reminds me of Mister Rogers Factory Visits

[@emerysoos]

watching this made me really thirsty lol

[@publicopinionnyc]

Same!

[@NewBooksNetworkBookoftheDay]

great video

[@publicopinionnyc]

thanks guys!

[@windstorminator]

But do they filter out pfos and heavy metals?

[@Nikolaslopezz]

Cuz you feel like Henry the 8th 😭😭😂😂😂

[@OffGridCofee]

Yes good water here 😁

[@BradHouser]

Fun Fact: NYC Water Tunnel Number 3 was used in the movie Die Hard With a Vengence.

[@graylucy481]

my grandparent live in the catskills by a river that feeds into the new york water supply and i used to pee in that river a lot

[@Hailey44]

Now what happens to the water after it goes down the drain

[@ru95]

Personally not a fan of the handheld mics for this style of video - but enjoyed it nevertheless!

[@natepalmer5714]

Why is the music guy doing engineering

[@jonjacob1962]

I really hoped he was gonna say the 3rd tunnel was named Greg or something. Lol.

[@shmowen]

5:04 GSD spotted 👀

[@serrahirsch1913]

Great video. Any info about the water towers? Is that holding actual tap water for buildings taller than 5-6 stories??

[@publicopinionnyc]

Yes they hold actual tap water. We made a follow up about how water gets to the top of the Empire State Building… coming soon

[@serrahirsch1913]

@@publicopinionnyc It concerns me, because I don't think those are regulated as well as the rest of the water supply. They might be in disrepair and birds or rodents (or, heck, a dead body once a few years back) can make their way in there. So if you live in a high rise, your water supply isn't quite up to snuff.

[@fridi105]

@@serrahirsch1913you’re right, there was actually an issue in the Bronx with contaminated water from those

[@marcain123]

NY is known for having one of the largest lead pipe water networks. NY water is a threat to its own residents

[@monserratmonroy1071]

It is crazy to me that you’re able to drink tap water because the last time I did that in my country was 25 years ago since it’s no longer possible.

[@futureworldhealing]

ah yes chlorine and fluoride...yum....

[@JimCutler]

Jack!

[@publicopinionnyc]

Jim!

[@JimCutler]

@@publicopinionnyc always been a fan. Terrific hosting, storytelling and production value.

[@davemcgaha]

Casey taught you well

[@FBMoy]

Phenomenal video. The dedication you have to peeling back and revealing more about the differing and diverse layers shone throughout. Thanks p_o team

[@kiwionpizza4862]

Wow.