Welcome to The Outfall – a podcast that explores the backstories of our water world and its infrastructure through unique stories. Whether you’re a curious learner or simply looking for an engaging listen, this podcast is designed to cater to a diverse audience. We aim to deliver short and engaging episodes for our audience, have a blast creating them, and uncover the fascinating tales about our water world. We invite you to subscribe.
Season 6 Behind the Scenes Update Here.
We are an entirely independent production. We are all lucky and have full-time jobs and understanding families. We do this for fun and to give back to this great water community. Funding comes directly from our listeners and us. If you’d like to support our show, you can become a supporter here (for a price of a coffee).
More importantly, you can also help support the show by spreading the word to everyone you know (seriously, everyone) to listen. We also encourage you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts.
We love feedback. A kind word can go a long way; every little bit helps! Do you have a good story idea for us? Do you want to be on the show? Please let us know here.
Meet The Creators
Amy is an environmental scientist who loves turning waste into something good.
David is an associate professor at Clemson University. While his research is geared toward making membrane-based water treatment processes more sustainable, he loves teaching and learning about water. Learn more here.
What can we say about Robert? He is a husband, father, and Client Director with Black & Veatch. He has also been in the water industry for over 28 years.
Past Seasons
- Season 1
- Conversation with Ron Rash
- Every Breath you take: Water Short
- Water Recycling inside the Space Station
- In Search of the Blue Ghose Firefly
- The Incredible Shrinking Hydraulic Laboratory
- 38 Days in a media Firestorm: Is it the Water?
- When Weather, Wit, and a Gaggleplex of Clouds Collide…Mark Malsick
- Responding to Dorian: On the Ground with Water Mission
- Bold Predictions and companies that will Change our Water Future
- Misdirection and Surprise: Water Short
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Wipes
- Season 2
- The Making of the Big Ditch: Water Short
- Dispatches from our Bunkers: Unprecedented
- Dispatches from our Bunkers: Cancelled Conference and Live Quiz
- Dispatches from our Bunkers: A Wastewater Meditation
- Dispatches from our Bunkers: Unmasking Vera
- How Sewers could track COVID_19
- Water Resources with Pam Kenel
- Exploring social media with Andrew Pyle
- Who Looks Down? Uncovering Manhole Covers around the world
- City of Charleston’s $100 Gold Medal Problem
- Poop U: how Universities are using Wastewater for Covid-19
- The Turkey Aroma Mystery
- Hidden World of Tunnels
- Afterglow: The Birth of Phosphorus
- What is the Future of Aquaponics?
- Season 3
- Season 3 A time to Explore More
- Buried Secrets: The Untold History Underneath Charleston
- Rediscovering the Wonder of Water
- Building a Southern Oasis: Passion and Obsession with a little mini-Golf
- Construction is Booming, but where are the pipes?
- Making infrastructure relevant to Millions: Meet Grady
- 2021 Book Club Pick
- Finding Einstein on the Enoree
- Cascading Failures, Unbelievable Circumstances, and the Road to Recovery
- A Deep Dive
- The Fight with Flushable Wipes
- The Heart of the Lookout: Part 1
- Old Sparky & the Epic Fires: Part 2
- Season 4
- Season 4 update and blue Ghosts
- Building in a Volatile World
- Should Doc Brown Drive an F-150
- Who invented the Foam Noodle?
- Cynthia Barnett: Humanity, Science, and Seashells
- How could Pixels transform our World?
- How do you treat Wastewater in Antarctica?
- 2022 Book Club Pick
- Happy Water Planning Land
- What Makes our Wonderland Work?
- Behind the Book: Grady Hillhouse
- Season 5
- Season 5 Trailer
- Creepy Baby Dolls and Other Tales of the Bandalong
- Mr. Trash Wheel: The Legend Lives On
- Pipe Dreams: Discussing the Global Quest to Transform the Toilet
- Building in Chaos 2.0
- How to Bathe in Wastewater
- The Curious Cast of the Color-shifting Pond
- Why Every Sewer Tells a Story
- Uncovering the Forgotten Outbreak
- We all Need a Mike
- The Epic Birth of the Ice Trade, Part 1
- How the South Created Ice, Part 2
- Inside the Safe Drinking Water Sector
- The Turkey Aroma Mystery REMIX
- Midnight Epiphany: What was Piers’ Revelation?
Thank You
Thanks again to all our guests and other friends of The Outfall who have donated their time and encouraged us.