Water Journeyman

Life as it is known has changed over the years, and so has how water has got to our homes. What would life today be like without plumbing? All of the styles of living in this life that we are used to would be gone and we would have to bring the water in to our homes with buckets. As long as there has been life on Earth people have needed to have water to function in a normal life and not suffer and die a slow and painful death. Archeologists have found lead pipe as far back as 3000 B.C. The evolution of the water pipe has sculpted how we live today.

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I had a hard time figuring out what I wanted to do after I graduated. But once I found what I want to do, I was set on becoming a journeyman plumber and pipe fitter. A journeyman is

Without water we cannot live for more than 3 days on Earth. The Dow Chemical Company states: irrigation systems can be traced back as 3000 BC (Dow 1995). This shows the will of the people to get what they needed to live and thrive in an area that is not next to a water source. Ivey Engineering and their workers: discovered copper pipe in the palace ruins of the Indus River Valley in India (4000 BC- 3000 BC) (Ivey Engineering 2015). This shows that people have altered where they live to make their way of life easier so they can focus on other thing like getting a larger crop or building a new barn. There was a group of people that had getting water down to where they were living figured out. That group of people was called the Romans and their aqueduct system. Archaeologists found: The longest aqueduct was Aqua Marcia Bih in 144 BC approximately 23 Miles from Rome (Ivey Engineering 2015). The aqueducts provided water to the roman cities and allowed the people to bath, stay clean, and have a fresh water source in the city. This allowed the Roman’s to become a strong and powerful kingdom and to take over many other kingdoms and keep their land from others who wanted

That was when they started putting PVC pipe into the homes. There was a time that PVC was not standard like it is now. But: plastic piping was introduced into use for modern plumbing systems in 1966 (2015 - Ivey Engineering). Why is it called PVC? That is an acronym for polyvinyl chloride. There are other types of plastic piping. One other type is called CPVC which stands for chlorinated polyvinyl chloride. This type of pipe can withstand temperatures up to 180 degrees. Another type is PEX which stands for cross-linked polyethylene or XLPEl but, PEX is much easier to remember and say. This pipe can also withstand temperatures of 180 degrees. This type of pipe is what is now going into most new buildings because it is easier to install in the homes and other