Science from the Tap
av Daniel Gerrity
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What are the emerging challenges facing the water industry? How do we know when drinking water is safe, and how do we measure and remove the contaminants that make it unsafe? How do we sustain communities in some of the driest places on the planet?
Here you'll find AI-generated "podcasts" (produced by Google's NotebookLM) that summarize Dr. Daniel Gerrity's peer-reviewed scientific publications on these topics. As with human podcast hosts, "Chad" and "Beth" don't always get the science exactly correct, but they do a pretty good job of making this science accessible to the public.
Bio: Dan Gerrity has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Arizona State University and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Nevada. Dan's research primarily focuses on the public health implications of water reuse, which is critically important for sustaining communities in water scarce regions. Dan has worked in industry, as a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), and now as a research scientist at a drinking water utility in Las Vegas.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sne7WfEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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- Playing the Enteric Pathogen Slots in Las Vegas · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 21Mask mandates, social distancing, and frequent hand washing became the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic. While these measures were directed at SARS-CoV-2, public health…
- Virus Roller Coasters and the Law of Averaging · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 20The steady climb of a roller coaster generally leads to an exciting, stomach-turning descent. But in the world of drinking water, peaks can be stomach-turning in a much different…
- Pop Quiz: Is Your Drinking Water System Ready for SARS-CoV-2 · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 19There is always a baseline level of uncertainty when it comes to making critical decisions. But what do you do when there's a significant 'shock' to the system that causes this…
- All Aboard the Potable Reuse Treatment Train · 21 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 18Engineers don't always drive trains, and trains don't always ride on tracks. For decades, civil and environmental engineers have been designing potable reuse treatment trains to…
- Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself, My Name Is O-3 · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 17What do you think of when you hear the word "ozone"? Maybe the hole in the ozone layer? Or the harmful lung irritant present in smog? In describing ozone, the American Lung…
- Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Virus Removal During Secondary Wastewater Treatment · 15 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 16Bacteria often get a bad rap, although justified in the case of something like Legionella or E. coli O157:H7. But they're not all bad! In fact, bacteria are the workhorses of…
- Dental Nightmares: Cavities, Root Canals, and...Legionella? · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 15Many people fear their next trip to the dentist. Best case scenario you might slip through with just an uncomfortable cleaning, but you could also wind up diagnosed with a…
- Roommates Wanted: Lower Rent, Lower Risk (of Legionella) · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 14Whether you own or rent, cost of living just keeps rising. What if I told you that roommates would not only reduce your cost of living but could also reduce your risk of…
- Could Legionella Be Lurking In Your Groundwater? · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 13Legionella is currently the leading cause of drinking water disease outbreaks in the United States. U.S. drinking water regulations are generally based on an acceptable annual…
- Finding a Fungal "Needle in a Haystack" · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 12There are now countless examples of how wastewater surveillance can be used to track trends in infectious disease transmission within a community. Most of these examples focus on…
- The "Last of Us" - Fact or Fiction? The Emerging Threat of Candida auris · 10 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 11The COVID-19 pandemic changed the world as we know it, and we're slowly recovering from its aftermath. But what if viruses aren't the biggest threat to humans? The opening scene…
- PFAS: Drinking Water's Dirty 4-Letter Word · 21 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 10Have you ever bought furniture with stain-resistant fabrics? Or eaten food that was in a fast-food wrapper or cooked in a nonstick frying pan? If the answer is yes, then you may…
- The Common Denominator: Quantifying COVID Cases With Wastewater · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 9The severity of a pathogen is often described in terms of a case fatality rate, or the ratio of people who die from the infection and associated disease vs. the total number of…
- Casinos, Tourists, and Covid...Oh My! · 9 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 8In March 2020, the lights went out, and the Las Vegas Strip became a ghost town. More than a year later, tourists finally returned to the resorts, casinos, and night clubs as…
- Turning Water Into Money: The GMP/H2O Concept · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 7Las Vegas is in the Mojave Desert--one of the driest places on the planet. Receiving about 4 inches of rain per year, some people question whether it makes sense to sustain a…
- The Butterfly Effect: How Does A Football Game In Miami Affect Wastewater In Las Vegas? · 8 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 6On February 7th, 2010, Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints defeated Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Super Bowl XLIV. The game was played in Miami--more than…
- Unsheltered Homelessness and COVID-19: Tracking Cases Through Environmental Surveillance · 8 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 5Unsheltered homeless individuals represent a highly vulnerable population, particularly when it comes to infectious and chronic disease. This is obviously due to the lack of…
- The Water Quality "Fingerprint" of Unsheltered Homelessness · 11 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 4Are the implications of unsheltered homelessness confined to this vulnerable population, or is it a wider problem that affects the broader community? This episode takes a "deep…
- One Size Fits All? Potable Reuse in Las Vegas · 21 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 3Despite being described by some as "toilet to tap", indirect (IPR) and direct potable reuse (DPR) systems are capable of producing some of the highest quality drinking water on…
- Tracking Drug Use in Las Vegas With Wastewater · 10 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 2Is the opioid epidemic worsening? Is fentanyl continuing to pour into the community, or is the supply drying up? And how do special events like the Super Bowl and March Madness…







