Tap Talk

TT085 – The Industry Needs You: The Water Tower's Workforce Vision

Welcome to Tap Talk Season 8! To kick off this new season, we welcome Courtney Lee to the show, who is the Director of Workforce Development at The Water Tower. The Water

TT084 – Leadership in Drinking Water Regulation: Adapting to Modern Needs (Part 2)

Today, we finish up Season 7 of Tap Talk with the final part of our conservation with Anthony DeRosa, the executive director of the Association of State Drinking Water Ad

TT083 – Leadership in Drinking Water Regulation: Adapting to Modern Needs (Part 1)

To conclude Season 7 of Tap Talk, we bring you a two-part conversation with Anthony DeRosa, the executive director of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrato

TT082 – Understanding This Year's El Niño with the Illinois State Climatologist

This week on Tap Talk, we are pleased to welcome to the show a colleague from the Illinois State Water Survey: Illinois State Climatologist Trent Ford. Trent explains the

TT081 – The Other Side of Vermont's Flash Drought: Stories from Public Water Systems

This week's episode of Tap Talk is a direct follow-up to last week's show, "What We Can Learn from Vermont's Flash Drought." In that episode, we primarily discussed the i

TT080 – What We Can Learn from Vermont's Flash Drought

For the 80th episode of Tap Talk, we are pleased to talk with Tom DeBell, an environmental health engineer at the Vermont Department of Health. Tom tells Steve and Jennif

TT079 - The Septage Catch-22: When Better Maintenance Creates Bigger Problems

The more people maintain their septic systems, the more septage gets generated. But, there's increasingly no where for it to go. Sara Heger, a decentralized wastewater ex

TT078 – Building the Future Workforce with Rural Water Apprentices

Next up on Tap Talk, we are welcoming Shannan Walton, the National Rural Water Association's Director of Workforce Development, to the show. At NRWA, Shannan has been int

TT077 – Discussing the History and Impact of the National Ground Water Monitoring Network (Part 2)

This week on Tap Talk we finish our two-part series with Bob Schreiber! In this episode, Bob (a water resources engineer at CDM Smith and long-time National Ground Water

TT076 – Discussing the History and Impact of the National Ground Water Monitoring Network (Part 1)

Our newest Tap Talk episode is a two-parter! Today, we welcome Bob Schreiber, a water resources engineer at CDM Smith and long-time National Ground Water Association memb

TT075 – Raising Your Hand: The Value of Industry Involvement

For Tap Talk's landmark 75th episode, we welcomed on Hunter Adams, the Water Source & Purification Superintendent for the City of Wichita Falls, Texas. With Jennifer & St

TT074 – Mitigating Legionella Risks in Water Systems: Lessons from a Microbiologist

Today, we welcome Katie Maegli of Water Quality Investigations to Tap Talk! WQI is a private water testing lab in southern Wisconsin, where Katie serves as the lab's micr

TT073 – Behind the Scenes of Water and Environment Reporting

Tap Talk Season 7 is here! Today, we bring you a conversation with Michael Phillis, a water & environment reporter for the Associated Press. Michael tells Jennifer & Stev

TT072 – Build Trust Before a Crisis: Communication Basics for Water Systems (Part 2)

Today, we finish Tap Talk Season 6 with the second part of our conversation with Mike McGill of WaterPIO! Jennifer, Steve, and Mike discuss the importance of reliable and

TT071 – Build Trust Before a Crisis: Communication Basics for Water Systems

We're concluding Tap Talk Season 6 with another two-part series! Today, we release the first episode of the set: "Build Trust Before a Crisis: Communication Basics for Wa

TT070 – Diving Into Biofilms With Water Quality Investigations (Part 2)

In the second episode of our series featuring Andrew Jacque and Emily Hefty-Dieckhoff from Water Quality Investigations, we continue exploring the world of biofilms and o

TT069 – Diving Into Biofilms With Water Quality Investigations (Part 1)

In the first episode of a two-part series, we explore the world of biofilms in drinking water systems with guests Andrew Jacque and Emily Hefty-Dieckhoff of Water Quality

TT068 – How the Be Well Informed Tool Educates Well Owners

In Tap Talk's 68th episode, Steve and Jennifer chat with Kurt Rakouskas — a project manager at the Environmental Council of the States — about the organization's cross-di

TT067 – The Value of Well Data in Serving Well Owners

This week on Tap Talk we are pleased to welcome guest Erin Ling, a senior extension specialist at Virginia Tech University who coordinates the Virginia Household Water Qu

TT066 - Understanding PFAS and Private Wells (Part 2)

In this episode we're concluding a two-part series exploring PFAS and their impact on private well users. Our conversation with Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson and Jennif