Wed. 04/28 - How To Fix Our Crappy Toilets & Secure Our Future
Cool Stuff Ride Home
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the khatky ride home for wed, April 28th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. It's time for a toilet revolution. No, I'm not just talking about the days. Our wastewater systems are dangerously out of date, but sustainable innovations could be just around the U-Bend. |
| 0:57.1 | Plus, the future of contact lenses is bright, or not if you preferred, they block the sun. |
| 1:04.3 | And Apple dropped a very pandemic-themed update to their emojis. |
| 1:10.3 | Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 1:15.9 | Of the many changes, we're likely to see from the pandemic, hopefully our toilets will be one of them. |
| 1:22.6 | And not just an increased usage in bidetes, although that would probably be a good thing, but a total |
| 1:28.0 | overhaul of the system. Like so much else, the pandemic has revealed a lot of pain points |
| 1:33.4 | related to our toilets and sewage systems. Chelsea Ward, a science and environmental journalist |
| 1:38.4 | and author of the new book, Pipe Dreams, the urgent global quest to transform the toilet, |
| 1:44.1 | explained the situation in Wired, |
| 1:46.3 | noting first that the technology behind the systems we use were developed over a century ago, |
| 1:51.8 | when the world was a much different place with much different challenges. |
| 1:55.6 | And it's not just the tech and concepts that are outdated. |
| 1:59.0 | The actual hardware is, too. A lot of our wastewater |
| 2:02.0 | infrastructure here in the United States is on its last breath, and the funding to replace |
| 2:06.8 | or properly maintain it just hasn't been there. But on top of that, the sanitation workforce |
| 2:12.0 | is also on the precipice of the silver tsunami, the retirements of a large portion of the sanitation sector, |
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