Saving Water A Flush At A Time
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English - September 16, 2020 17:53 - 11 minutes - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsBusiness Technology listen notes listen later dailypod Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Episode: Saving Water A Flush At A Time
Pub date: 2020-09-15
Flushing toilets can consume a lot of water. So Tak-Sing Wong, a biomedical engineer at Penn State University, is trying to minimize how much is needed. Wong developed a slippery coating for the inside of a toilet bowl. In this encore episode, he tells us it can potentially move human waste more efficiently, leaving a cleaner bowl with less water.
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