Time to Make Something Happen

As you’ll see in this week’s Health Politics program, the threat of a cholera epidemic in the United States is not huge — although we came close after Hurricane Katrina — but many developing nations struggle with it constantly. The bacterium that causes the disease lives and thrives in contaminated water, and once a victim […]

The Price of (Old) Toilets

According to the EPA’s new WaterSense program, “super low-flow” toilets use 1.28 gallons of water or less per flush. Older toilets, still used in many households, use 4 to 6 gallons per flush. The difference over a single year? A savings of at least 4,000 gallons of water per toilet. I’ve done a fair amount […]

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