589 - World Water Day: Fatbergs — The Public Health Menace Beneath Our Feet
Public Health On Call · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Show Notes
Fatbergs are 'the bane of utilities' existence'—they exist because many cities take for granted an essential but largely hidden public health tool: urban sewers. In this episode, Natalie Exum, Assistant Scientist in the department of Environmental Health and Engineering, and Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper Alice Volpitta of Blue Water Baltimore, a nonprofit that serves as a watchdog for the city's water systems, about the immovable clogs that threaten public health in cities across the globe—and what we do about it.