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In Deep

American Public Media

Science

Frequency: 1 episode/58d. Total Eps: 15

In Deep is a podcast about water, climate and environment from The Water Main at American Public Media. In Season 1, we tackled the strangely fascinating yet troubling world of clean water -- from tap to toilet. Season 2 shines a light on environmental equity with a rich journalistic portrait of a working-class city and its residents at a perilous moment in our planet's existence.

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🇺🇸 USA - science
22/01/2025
#92
🇺🇸 USA - science
15/01/2025
#90
🇺🇸 USA - science
11/01/2025
#96

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https://www.apmreports.org/story/2020/05/04/epa-lead-pipes-drinking-water
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http://flintwaterstudy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Miguels-Memo.pdf
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Moving On

Season 2 · Episode 5

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 • Duration 20:54

Toward the end of our team’s time in Lake Charles, the city made one last push to clean up debris that was still left over from back-to-back hurricanes. No one could have predicted what happened next. In our final episode, we learn how residents are trying to move forward after a year of storms and how their experience could be repeated in other communities nationwide.

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Peace of Mind

Season 2 · Episode 4

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 • Duration 33:02

After severe storms struck Lake Charles, many homeowners expected to rebuild quickly. They had been paying home insurance premiums for years for just this moment. But instead of receiving prompt payouts, their claims were delayed and denied. In this episode, we learn how the insurance industry has started playing hardball after weather disasters — and what that might mean for communities across the country in the age of climate change.

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Poison Pipes

Season 1 · Episode 4

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 • Duration 33:26

Clean water can get contaminated on its way to your faucet. In America, more than 9 million lead service lines connect city water to individual homes (and apartments), leaving millions of people vulnerable to potentially harmful doses of lead. Retired EPA scientist — and Flint whistleblower — Miguel Del Toral shows us lead pipes unearthed from his property in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood and explains why they're no longer considered safe. And we talk to a Milwaukee father, who stumbled upon this lesson with his young son.

→ Read APM Reports’ investigation
→ Read Del Toral’s memorandum on Flint

Guests:

Miguel Del Toral, EPA scientist (retired)

Rick Rabin, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health

Tory Lowe, Milwaukee activist (and father of four)

Karen Baehler, scholar-in-residence at American University School of Public Affairs

Photo: Lauren Rosenthal | APM Reports

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Godzilla's Bathtub

Season 1 · Episode 3

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 • Duration 24:28

Older American cities have a dirty problem — outdated sewer systems that use a single pipe to carry both sewage and stormwater to treatment facilities. As population growth and climate change have increased both sewage and stormwater, those pipes can get filled to capacity, and the untreated water sometimes ends up in waterways, where it wreaks havoc on the ecosystem. Chicago’s strategy for stopping the overflows has been to build massive reservoirs and a 109-mile-long system of tunnels hundreds of feet below ground. It’s a gargantuan holding tank for filthy water. Unfortunately, it may not be big enough.

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Microbial Goo

Season 1 · Episode 2

Wednesday, August 12, 2020 • Duration 23:27

Just how hard is it to keep wastewater out of our drinking water? Super hard. In this episode, we take a look at the lengths one great American city, Chicago, went to in order to keep the source of its drinking water clean. Reverse the flow of the river? Why not? Then we explore the origins of activated sludge — a century-old microbial goo that still cleans up our sewage today. We end with a scientist studying what a city’s wastewater can reveal about the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Dirty Water

Season 1 · Episode 1

Wednesday, August 5, 2020 • Duration 22:23

Throughout human history, cities have grappled with how to keep excrement separate from drinking water. In the Middle Ages, gong farmers excavated human waste from city dwellers and took it to the countryside to be used as fertilizer. In the 19th century, cities grew so big, this wasn’t possible anymore. So excrement went into rivers like the Thames, which is where London, a city of 2 million people in 1850, got its drinking water. At the same time, cholera was killing tens of thousands of people. Nearly everyone thought cholera was transmitted through the air. But John Snow, a London physician, discovered dirty water was the cause.

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Trailer: Season 1

Season 1

Tuesday, July 28, 2020 • Duration 02:36

From history to policy to full-on drama, In Deep dives headfirst into the troubling state of the mysterious networks that keep our water clean and coming out of the tap. We explore when “out of sight, out of mind” could get us in deep doo-doo, because the ugly truth is that these complex systems are just as imperfect as the people who created them. In Deep will plumb the depths of the complex mysteries behind the clean water in our lives. It’s an engrossing tale that mirrors the very development of our present-day human civilizations — and is shockingly just as fallible.

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The Cavalry

Season 2 · Episode 3

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 • Duration 27:20

People in Lake Charles expected the federal government to help them rebuild their battered city. That’s what they had been promised. That’s what had happened after previous storms. But this time was different. In this episode, we report on why the federal government kept thousands of storm victims waiting. And why similar neglect could happen anywhere in the nation.

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The Helpers

Season 2 · Episode 2

Wednesday, October 5, 2022 • Duration 31:19

In the wake of three historic storms, many residents of Lake Charles, Louisiana, were struggling. Roishetta Sibley Ozane felt she had to do something to keep her community together. She started feeding people, clothing people, even paying to house them in hotels. All while she struggled to find a permanent home for her six children. In this episode, we follow Roishetta as she becomes the safety net for a city that the federal government neglected.

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Somewhere to Sleep

Season 2 · Episode 1

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 • Duration 29:23

In a span of nine months, Lake Charles, Louisiana, endured two hurricanes, an ice storm, and a flood. The federal government promised to help the city rebuild. But as time wore on, Lake Charles remained a sea of blue tarps and debris. People like Alexis Sheridan were struggling. Alexis, who was seven months pregnant, resorted to sleeping in a tent. In this episode, we spend time with Alexis and her fiancé as they search for somewhere to live before their baby is born.

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