Chemically Polluted Water in West Virginia Becomes Flashpoint

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🗓️ 10 August 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When director Cullen Hoback began work on his latest documentary, "What Lies Upstream," he hoped to find out why it took months for local officials in West Virginia to investigate chemically contaminated tap water. But his initial investigation into chemically polluted drinking water in West Virginia soon expanded into a far-reaching analysis of local regulators’ inability, and in some cases unwillingness, to safeguard the people and resources they were entrusted to protect.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:09.4	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.2	My guest today is Colin Hoback.
0:13.7	He is the director of a new documentary called What Lies Upstream.
0:17.9	On one level, it's an investigative look at a fight over pollution and clean water in
0:21.9	West Virginia.
0:22.9	But it's also a story about how important politics can be at the local level and why government
0:28.1	is more than just Washington, DC.
0:30.5	Colin, welcome to 1947.
0:34.1	We call it 1947 in case you're wondering.
0:35.8	It's the year of Meet the Press's birth.
0:37.4	Oh, really?
0:38.4	I didn't know if I had just gone back in time.
0:40.0	Back in time.
0:41.0	It would be a radio and it wasn't a podcast.
0:43.2	You know, the first thing that crossed my mind with your documentary was the Flint water
0:46.8	crisis because this is something that people do know a lot about.
0:50.8	But we all knew Flint wasn't alone and Flint was a separate issue, but it was also a failure
0:55.5	of government.
0:56.6	Tell me about your story.
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