How Does Water Get to Our Homes?

Guest: Shahzeen Attari, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington Do you know where the water from your tap actually comes from? The steps it went through to become clean, drinkable H2O? How about where it goes when it leaves the drains in your sink, shower, or toilet? You don’t really need to know the answers to enjoy the benefits of our water system, but if we’re going to deal with drought effectively or prevent future contamination disasters like the one in Flint, Michigan, we all need to know how the water system works.  And new research suggest we really don’t get it. Indiana University Bloomington professor Shahzeen Attari surveyed 500 college students about their water system knowledge.