Saving Water One Flush At A Time

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English - November 19, 2019 09:00 - 10 minutes - 9.39 MB - ★★★★★ - 5.7K ratings
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Happy World Toilet Day! 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. It can potentially move human waste more efficiently, leaving a cleaner bowl and using less water. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia . Email the show at [email protected].

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