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Carrie Fellner is a journalist working with the Newcastle Herald in NSW, Australia. For about a year, Carrie has been covering a story on contamination of groundwater by the polyfluoro-alkyl chemicals, PFOA and PFOS. The contamination is from a Royal Australian Airforce base in Williamtown near Newcastle. Carrie shares details of the contamination incident and the impact it has had on the local community.
Prof Charles Haas is the LD Betz Professor of Environmental Engineering and Head of the Department of Civil, Architectural & Environmental Engineering at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA, USA. In this podcast, we discuss drinking water and wastewater disinfection, quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA), water recycling including direct potable reuse, seawater desalination, urban stormwater harvesting, and the protection of large urban rivers for recreational water quality improvements. You can follow Charles on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ProfCharlesHaas