What’s REALLY in Your Drinking Water w/ Chemical Engineer Katie Vanderespt

About this episode

The episode discusses the origins and contents of tap water, featuring insights from chemical engineer Katie Vanderespt.

Where does our tap water come from, and what does it actually contain? Todays discussion with Katie Vanderespt uncovers how waste water is treated, how drinking water is disinfected, how water filtration works, and how to determine what is actually in your drinking water… Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/w5IgKmdwnCo Katie Vanderespt is a Chemical Engineer who worked in oil, coal and gas before doing a Fulbright fellowship at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia where she rese...

People in this episode

Host: Jesse Crowe

Guest: Katie Vanderespt

Topics covered

• drinking water
• water treatment
• water filtration
• chemical engineering
• public health

Keywords

• drinking water
• water quality
• chemical engineer
• water treatment
• filtration

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jozef Stefan Institute, Fulbright

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