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Responding to Dorian: On the Ground with Water Mission

George Greene, President of Water Mission We talk with George Greene, President of Water Mission, about the Bahamas. Water mission is unique in the world of NGOs with a powerful story. They are a nonprofit Christian engineering organization that...

Episode Spotlight: Why We Still Need Physical Models

Do you remember your hardest class? Mine was Dr. Hayter’s Fluid Modeling class. I don’t remember the lectures, but I do remember the project. Our class had to survey a short section of a creek that ran through Clemson University. Afterward, we built...

Episode Spotlight on Mark Malsick

“Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall west of Mobile Bay last night like a disheveled sailor awash with beer and poor choices.”Mark Malsick, SCDNR, from one of his severe weather emails. Many in the Carolinas and throughout the world know Mark...

38 Days in a Media Firestorm: Is it the Water?

In the summer of 2017, a group of residents and environmental activist Erin Brockovich challenged Mount Pleasant’s water system claiming that the town’s water contained pesticides that might be causing brain cancer in children. Listen to Clay...

The Incredible Shrinking Hydraulic Laboratory

When David Werth started this lab over five years ago he literally bet the house by maxing out his credit cards and getting an instrumental loan to start the lab. His bet paid off. David is one of those guys that is full of passion when he is...

In Search of the Blue Ghost Firefly

Our second water short has us searching for the mysterious Blue Ghost Firefly. This Firefly is found nowhere else in the world, but the Southern Appalachians and the largest population is in Western North Carolina. While all other species of firefly...

Water Recycling in the Space Station

Dr. Ladner had a chance to talk with Layne Carter from NASA recently. During his 28 years at NASA, Mr. Carter has worked on the development, design, delivery, and operation of the ISS Water Recovery System (WRS), which includes the Water Processor...

Every Breath You Take

This week we produced our first Water Short, a short podcast five minutes or less with one big idea. This week we ask a question: When you lose weight, through which orifice does it leave? It’s something we don’t typically think about, but you...

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