Tim Cash This episode concludes our conversation with Tim Cash about his adventures operating a fire tower for the US Forest Service this past year. We shift gears from talking about the lookout itself to the elements- fire, smoke, and lightning...
TIm Cash We go on the front lines of a drought from a unique vantage point—a fire tower. Tim Cash, a retired career public servant with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, shares his eye-opening adventures of operating a fire tower for...
In this episode, we continue the flushable wipes story originating deep under the streets of Charleston from our first season. We talk with Paul Calamita with Aqualaw about Charleston Water System’s lawsuit against seven manufacturers and retailers...
This is a story about people and a utility rising up in unbelievable circumstances where failure was not an option. We go behind the scenes and learn how the CIty of Columbia responded to cascading catastrophic failures throughout their...
This episode is a tale about an abandoned one-of-a-kind facility recently discovered in a middle of a South Carolina river, a famous sediment transport researcher and Albert Einstein. Yes, Albert Einstein. Hans and Albert walking in Greenville, SC...
We have talked about starting a book club since we began the podcast. Well, we finally did it. We are excited to read together as a community Cynthia Barnett’s new book The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans. We caught up with...
In this episode, we talk to a YouTube superstar, Grady Hillhouse. Grady has over two million subscribers to his video channel called Practical Engineering. We learn the remarkable tale about how he started and how he has evolved. Grady also reveals...
It seems nothing we buy today is immune to supply constraints in this crazy connected world, including new water Infrastructure. For example, pipes can be hard to find right now depending on the size and material, and costs are increasing sometimes...
John Woodruff spent six years building an oasis. He made it without blueprints but had a vision of a water-filled oasis with plants and trees of all varieties, fish, and a mini-golf course carved through solid canyon walls eons ago. We hear about...
On this podcast, we talk about the nuts and bolts of water, wastewater, and infrastructure, but sometimes, in looking so closely at what we do, we can miss the beauty and power that water has. In this episode: We talk to artist Mary Edna Fraser, an...