In this week’s episode of the Everything Antarctica Podcast, Matty and Jonny sit down with Tom Newell. Tom was the water engineer at Scott Base in the 2011 and 2012 season, wintering over in 2012.

One of the most popular questions we get is how do you produce drinking water, and what do you do with the waste? Tom answers both of these questions!

His job was to produce the drinking water and potable water for the station and manage the water infrastructure. He also processed all of the station’s wastewater through the wastewater treatment plant.

Tom dealt with many challenges including trying to keep all of the infrastructure warm so that none of the water froze inside the pipes.

He talks about how he got his job, and what his day-to-day life was like when he was south.