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Catherine Coleman Flowers on America’s Dirty Secret
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Catherine Coleman Flowers on America’s Dirty Secret

The Heart of Healthcare | A Digital Health Podcast · Halle Tecco

August 22, 202238m 20s

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Show Notes

In this episode [Episode 1 revisited], Catherine Coleman Flowers (the “Erin Brockovich of Sewage”) explains how crumbling infrastructure causes toxic sewage spills in the backyards of poor, rural communities. Flowers also talks about how she discovered an outbreak of an intestinal, blood-feeding parasite we thought had been eradicated in the United States. Catherine Coleman Flowers is a MacArthur 'Genius' grant winner, the founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice, and the author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret.


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