Lesson 10

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Where Moscow’s water flows from

The Moscow Western Water – Supply Station provides water to one quarter of the city – from the southwest to Tushino (in the north). It is not far from Vnukovo Airport. The station pumps water from the Moskva River in the area of Barvikha, where a water intake complex is based. A part of the water is piped at a distance of 16 km to the southeast and goes into special chamber where all (or nearly all) natural odors are eliminated with manganese and activated carbon. There are several operators who monitor the odor elimination process by smelling samples of water.

The most important process, however, occurs when the water gets into the mixer. There it is chorinated (in order to kill off bacteria) and reagents precipitating chemical substances are added to it. After staying for a while in a setting basin, the water is filtered through layers of sand and coal dust. Then it is chlorinated again (so that the water does not spoil on the way to Muscovites’ water tapes) and channeled into closed reservoirs where the finally pure liquid is fed into the Moscow water supply system.

The water in the capital is considered to be among the best in Europe. This station is the most reminiscent of a swimming pool. There is no one there at all. Most of the operations are automated with just 25 people manning a shift.

The small chamber reminiscent of a recreation room is especially interesting: Rubber rugs, plastic flowers in pots, thousands of square meters of ideally clean ceramic tiled floors, the greenish mirror- like water surface, and the smell of chlorine. In the middle of the chamber, there is a small fountain surrounded by plastic plants; on the sides, there are square illuminated port- holes behind which small waterfalls can be seen. There is the place where the water is subjected to the final- visual- control check, for transparency.

The station director Oleg Baburov believes that Muscovites will not start saving water until a water meter is installed on each tap.

Vocabulary:

water intake – водозабор

chamber – камера, резервуар

elimination – устранение

water tap – водопроводный кран

to feed (fed) – подавать, нагнетать

setting basin – отстойник

to man – укомплектовать людьми

a shift – смена

reminiscent – напоминающий

port hole – отверстие

waterfall – водопад

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