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A Path Out of the Water Crisis (w/ Dr. Peter Gleick)

The Climate Pod

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The History of Modern Water Treatment

Dr. John Snow in London was the first to prove that cholera was a water-related disease. In 1909, New Jersey engineer John Leel built what we would now consider modern water systems. Human health and life expectancy expanded rapidly in the U.S., he says.

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