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Videos

  • The staff at NEW Water in Green Bay, Wisconsin, delivers an important holiday message with "O Love Your Pipes!"
  • The City of Keene, New Hampshire, worked with local high school students to create this public service announcement, Don't Flush That. Congratulations to the City of Keene and the students for putting together this great video!
  • United Utilities, England - Can’t Flush This! external.link Entertaining video that shows what happens when “flushing the wrong things down the loo.”
  • Sewermen of Thames Water, London, Holiday videos on avoiding disposal of FOG and wipes in the sewer 2012 Video external.link2011 Video external.link
  • City of Spokane Department of Wastewater Management – Will It Flush? external.link This video demonstrates the relative dispersibility (or lack of dispersibility) of various products, including toilet paper, facial tissues, cotton swabs, and kitty litter.
  • Portland Water District – Don’t Flush Wipes external.link
    This dramatic public service announcement was created by University of Southern Maine students for the Portland Water District.
  • Consumer Reports – Flushable Wipes external.link
    This video shows disintegration tests of toilet paper and “flushable” wipes, as well as a consumer talking about her sewage basement backup caused by wipes.
  • The demonstration in this video shows a wipe breaking up in a “slosh box test,” but utilities believe this test does not simulate actual sewer conditions.

 

 

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