{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Lil' Tinklers Part 2: Rachel Mullen and Dan Marks","description":"This past August, Shawn Shafner traveled to Brattleboro, VT to join Urine Diversion Summit 2016\u2014a conference brimming with pee-ple making waves over how we \u201cmake water.\u201d While The Puru didn\u2019t want to disrupt the flow, he was able to divert a few participants away from micturation and into the microphone for some short interviews. Thus: The Lil\u2019 Tinklers. In Part 2, wee-wee will learn about how shaking the dew off your lily can affect the frogs on their pads, and how wastewater treatment plants are struggling to keep up with the stream. First we\u2019ll meet Rachel Mullen, a graduate student in environmental analytical chemistry. She partners with the Rich Earth Institute to study what percentage of the pharmaceuticals that leave your body in pee (HINT: a lot) are taken up by peas, lettuce, and other vegetables (HINT: not very much). Then we\u2019ll chat with Dan Marks, mild-mannered wastewater engineer by day, subversive urine-separating enthusiast by night. He\u2019ll explain how 1972\u2019s Clean Water Act brought centralized sewage into the modern age, why we\u2019re now falling dangerously behind, and what even greater threats may lie just beyond the horizon. But don\u2019t get pissed off! Instead pop a Xanax, put on the popdcast, and void your body of all anxiety. Also mentioned: Kim Nace, Abe Noe-Hays, University of Buffalo, molecular, crops, wee wee, morphine, caffeine, iopamide, toxicology, parts per billion, FDA, sex toys, tampons, acetominophen, dosage, metabolism, effluent, menstruation, hormone replacement therapy, research funding, discomfort, Louis C. K., Buddhism, suffering, Freakonomics radio, cardiology, good Jew, flannel, aging infrastructure, \u201cend of its useful life,\u201d pipes, upgrade, regulation, regulatory burden, EPA, DEP, Nitrogen, Phosphorous, primary, secondary, tertiary, organic matter, bacteria, digestion, fixed, fluid, media, discharge, suspended solids, capital costs, operations, \u201ccontaminants of emerging concern,\u201d personal care products, Blinky the fish, The Simpsons, Daniel Gerling, Flush documentary, autonomy, technology, science ","author_name":"SHHH: The Poopcast (aka S**t and Shame with Shawn)","author_url":"http:\/\/poopcast.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"